Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
41984
Points per Word
0.000143
Description
The day the whale came was the day everything went wrong. Jimmy's close-knit family is devastated when his father has a stroke. When a sperm whale becomes trapped in the estuary Jimmy feels an affinity with it's grandeur and wildness.