Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
38668
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
282
Points per Page
0.021277
Description
When Rio is sent to live with a grandmother he barely knows in California, he feels completely alone. Rio grows to love the whales nearby after he meets Marina, who teaches him about the massive gray whales that migrate up the coast.