Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.8
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
16104
Points per Word
0.000186
Page Count
61
Points per Page
0.04918
Description
By 'reading' the bones of people killed in the town of Herculaneum by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius, an anthropologist reconstructs their lives.