Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.2
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
41359
Points per Word
0.000193
Page Count
163
Points per Page
0.04908
Description
Text and photographs tell the story of three brave men sent by President McKinley in 1897 to drive two herds of reindeer though the treacherous Alaskan terrain to feed the 300 starving men aboard eight stranded whale ships.