Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
5736
Points per Word
0.000174
Page Count
41
Points per Page
0.02439
Description
When sailors aboard a Dutch ship in 1663 capture a creature, half man and half fish, all the superstitious crewmen want to kill it except for a young cabin boy who believes that the creature deserves to live.