Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
21752
Points per Word
0.000138
Page Count
352
Points per Page
0.008523
Description
On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam built to create a man-made lake for America's wealthiest businessmen collapsed, unleashing twenty million tons of water onto the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, told in the voices of six children.