Ice Whale cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 5.3
Points 5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 32737
Points per Word 0.000153
Page Count 189
Points per Page 0.026455

Description

In 1848, ten-year-old Toozak, a Yupik Eskimo, sees a whale being born and is told by a shaman that he and his descendants must protect that whale, which Toozak names Siku, as long as it lives.