Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.2
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55093
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
246
Points per Page
0.03252
Description
Twelve-year-old Buddy, whose dyslexia makes things difficult for her at home and at school, hopes to rescue the dolphins that are being held and mistreated at a swamp farm near her home in the Everglades. The plot contains negative stereotypes.