Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.7
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
6306
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
64
Points per Page
0.015625
Series
Carolrhoda Creative Minds
Description
This is a biography of the half-Dutch/half-black Surinamese man who, despite the hardships and prejudice he found in his new Massachusetts home, invented a shoe-lasting machine that revolutionized the shoe industry in the late nineteenth century.