Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1261
Points per Word
0.000397
Page Count
16
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
A Latin American folktale from the jungles of Chiapas, telling a story of how colors were created and reminding men and women of the world not to forget the gray past and to be happy because all colors and ways of thinking have their place in the world.