The Sea Man cover

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.