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The Story of the Great Bear

Author: Griffin, Ingrid

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level 2.9
Points 0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 392
Points per Word 0.001276
Page Count 24
Points per Page 0.020833

Description

Ancient cultures thought the star formation Ursa Major looked like a bear, and the ancient Greeks connected the constellation to their myth of Callisto, a lovely woman who was transformed into a bear by the jealous goddess Hera.