Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.7
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
31133
Points per Word
0.000193
Page Count
200
Points per Page
0.03
Description
This book documents the 1900 outbreak of the bubonic plague in San Francisco's Chinatown, tracing the efforts to halt its spread, the leaders who tried to keep the epidemic from being publicized, and the scientists who unlocked the plague's secrets.