Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1023
Points per Word
0.000489
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
Recounts how three elephants in a Tokyo zoo were put to death because of the war, focusing on the pain shared by the elephants and the keepers who must starve them.