Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.0
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
44583
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
186
Points per Page
0.037634
Description
While spending the summer in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil doing botanical research, thirteen-year-old Grady discovers a secret language used by the trees to communicate with each other and meets Dr. Carter, whose motives seem questionable.