Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
6.1
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
74862
Points per Word
0.00016
Page Count
360
Points per Page
0.033333
Description
Four linked stories beginning with a Paleolithic-era girl who makes the first written signs, continues with Anna, who people call a witch, then a mad 20th-century poet who watches the ocean knowing the horrors it hides and concluding with an astronaut.