Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
5.5
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
3340
Points per Word
0.000299
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
This is a brief biography of Oseola McCarty, a hard-working washerwoman who, without a formal education herself, donated a portion of her life savings to the University of Southern Mississippi to endow a scholarship fund for needy students.