Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.4
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
770
Points per Word
0.000649
Page Count
24
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
A brief biography of marine biologist and conservationist Rachel Carson, whose book showing how chemicals hurt the planet helped start the modern environmental movement.