Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.0
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2676
Points per Word
0.000187
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
Since the 1970s, motorcyclists and auto racers have gathered over thousands of miles of some of the harshest deserts on Earth. What began as a race from Paris, France, to Dakar, Senegal, has grown into an event raced all over the world.