Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
7544
Points per Word
0.000133
Description
Occasionally, great floods fill the desert basin of Lake Eyre, and for a while wildlife teems along the shore. But the miracle is short lived as in the fierce summer heat the lake shrinks and animals such as the pelican must leave for the coast or die.