Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.9
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
7042
Points per Word
0.000142
Page Count
105
Points per Page
0.009524
Series
Who Was...?/Who Is...?
Description
George Washington Carver was born into slavery in 1860s Missouri. As a free man, he attended college and went on to teach at the Tuskegee Institute, where he specialized in botany and developed different uses for crops.