Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.0
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
15506
Points per Word
0.000193
Description
This book describes the efforts of the artist, museum curator, and self-taught paleontologist, Charles Willson Peale, to excavate, study, and display the bones of a prehistoric creature that is later named "mastodon."