Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.4
Points
14.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
91857
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
309
Points per Page
0.045307
Series
Dark Tower
Description
As teenaged Roland mourns the death of his mother, his father sends him after the bloodthirsty, shape-shifting skin-man, whose rampage has left alive only a boy named Bill. Roland soothes the child by telling him a story from the MAGIC TALES OF THE ELD.