Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2993
Points per Word
0.000167
Description
Sir Ernest Shackleton and twenty-seven men set out to cross Antarctica. But the sea froze around their ship, crushing it. After months camped on the ice, six of them braved 1300 kilometres of wild, freezing ocean in a lifeboat to seek help.