Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.3
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
49302
Points per Word
0.000183
Page Count
220
Points per Page
0.040909
Description
Joy Adamson describes the remarkable relationship she and her husband had with Elsa, a lion cub they cared for during the late 1950s in Kenya, and Elsa's return to the wild as a lioness.