Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.0
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
4444
Points per Word
0.000225
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
This biographical account of Black Elk, an Oglala-Lakota medicine man (1863-1950), recounts how a childhood vision shaped his life and his environment in the battles of Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee.