Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.0
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
39965
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
204
Points per Page
0.029412
Description
The luxury liner "St. Louis" left Germany in May 1939 full of Jewish passengers seeking refuge in Cuba but was denied port in Cuba, the United States, and Canada before returning to Europe, where many died in the Holocaust.