Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
46376
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
233
Points per Page
0.030043
Description
Marlin, a stutterer, can talk smoothly and freely with the jungle animals in his father's zoo in South America, until a mysterious man-eating black jaguar that his father catches and brings back home talks back. The plot contains animal violence.