Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.1
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1633
Points per Word
0.000306
Description
This book tells the story of how, in Savannah, Georgia, in 1857, James Lord Pierpont sat down to write a song for his congregation's Thanksgiving program and, homesick for the cold New England weather he remembered, came up with an enduring classic.