Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.1
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2765
Points per Word
0.000181
Description
Percy Fawcett was a mapmaker and adventurer who spent years in the early 1900s mapping the jungles of South America. Obsessed with finding a lost city of gold hidden in the jungle, Fawcett set out on a quest at age 57 with his son Jack and friend Raleigh Rimell. The book recounts their doomed expedition to find the Lost City of Z and the clues they left behind after disappearing.