Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
5.2
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
943
Points per Word
0.00053
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
In 1927, airplanes were a thrilling but dangerous novelty. Most people, men and women, believed that a woman belonged in the kitchen and not in a cockpit. Ruth Elder set out to prove them wrong by flying across the Atlantic Ocean.