The Old Man and the Sea cover

The Old Man and the Sea

Author: Hemingway, Ernest

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 5.1
Points 4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 26560
Points per Word 0.000151
Page Count 128
Points per Page 0.03125

Description

In this beautiful, symbolic story an old fisherman catches a giant marlin, only to have sharks strip it to the bone.