Little Monk and the Mantis: A Bug, a Boy, and the Birth of a Kung Fu Legend cover

Little Monk and the Mantis: A Bug, a Boy, and the Birth of a Kung Fu Legend

Author: Fusco, John

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level 5.4
Points 1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 4524
Points per Word 0.000221
Page Count 32
Points per Page 0.03125

Description

In ancient China, a young monk at the Shaolin Temple develops a new style of self-defense after spending the summer alone in the Song Mountains and observing a small praying mantis battling a much larger beetle.