Life on Surtsey: Iceland's Upstart Island cover

Life on Surtsey: Iceland's Upstart Island

Author: Burns, Loree Griffin

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.