Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.2
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
14270
Points per Word
0.00014
Page Count
74
Points per Page
0.027027
Description
Readers join scientists as they tackle something unusual in the world of ecosystems: colonization. Not a colonization by people but one of cells, spores, and other life forms that blow in and struggle to survive on the new island of Surtsey.