Tracking Pythons: The Quest to Catch an Invasive Predator and Save an Ecosystem
Author: Messner, Kate
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.4
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
15215
Points per Word
0.000197
Page Count
68
Points per Page
0.044118
Description
Burmese pythons are native to Southeast Asia, so when one showed up dead along the side of a Florida highway in 1979, scientists wondered where it came from. No one knew the snakes had launched a full-scale invasion.