Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.8
Points
19.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
114157
Points per Word
0.000166
Page Count
510
Points per Page
0.037255
Description
Through famine, drought, and revolution, Wang Lung, a peasant in China in the 1920s, becomes a prosperous landowner with the help of his humble wife, O'lan, with whom he shares a devotion to duty, land, and survival.