Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.5
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
5650
Points per Word
0.000177
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Series
Orca Echoes
Description
One spring, a nine-year-old Cree boy is visited by a master soapstone carver named Lindy, who gives him four pieces of soapstone. Lindy teaches the boy to listen to the soapstone and look to the world around him for signs as to what to carve.