Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.0
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
529
Points per Word
0.000945
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
A picture book biography of Jadav Payeng who, as a boy, was distressed by the destructive deforestation and erosion in India's Brahmaputra River region, so he began planting trees. What began as a small thicket of bamboo grew into a thriving 1,300 acres.