The Race Around the World: How Nellie Bly Chased an Impossible Dream... cover

The Race Around the World: How Nellie Bly Chased an Impossible Dream...

Author: Castaldo, Nancy

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level 4.4
Points 1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 9317
Points per Word 0.000107
Page Count 112
Points per Page 0.008929

Description

This account of the nineteenth-century civil rights advocate and journalist's famous 72-day trip around the world describes how she was inspired by Jules Verne's classic and how her detractors claimed that her goal was impossible for a woman to achieve.