Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.7
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
2848
Points per Word
0.000176
Description
In Rome, AD 113, Pertinax is helping prepare magnificent dishes for a feast to be help by the great lawyer Pliny. While the boy is working, Pliny tells him the story of a terrifying ghost who haunted a garden not unlike Pliny's own.