Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.5
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
3828
Points per Word
0.000261
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Series
New Explorers
Description
Describes the experiences of an ethnobotanist in South America as he learns from Tirio Indians the medicinal value of rain forest plants, and struggles to record the data before these ancient traditions vanish.