Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
4155
Points per Word
0.000241
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
Hurricane Katrina struck the city of New Orleans in 2005. The levees and floodwalls built to protect the city failed. Many neighborhoods flooded, and more than 1,800 people died.