Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.4
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1077
Points per Word
0.000464
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
This is a fictionalized account of the empress of China's discovery, around 2700 B.C., that the cocoons of the worms in her mulberry trees were made of fine, shiny, silken thread which could be made into beautiful cloth.