Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.6
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
2088
Points per Word
0.000239
Page Count
56
Points per Page
0.008929
Description
This book relates the story of Homan Walsh, a fifteen-year-old boy who in 1847 successfully flew a kite over the Niagara River from Canada to the United States, enabling work to begin on a suspension bridge near Niagara Falls.