Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.8
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2306
Points per Word
0.000217
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Series
Eco-Disasters
Description
In 1963, Les Skramstad came home after a hard days work at the local mill and mine in Libby, Montana. His family did not mind he was covered in a powdery brown dust. Little did Les and his family know that the dust was a deadly mineral called asbestos.