Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.6
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
8004
Points per Word
0.000125
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Series
Superheroes of Science
Description
In 2010, the Royal Society named Mary Anning one of the 10 British women most influential in the history of science. Though she wasn't appreciated in her time because she was a woman, she was one of the premier fossil hunters of 19th-century England.