Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.2
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
41466
Points per Word
0.000169
Page Count
135
Points per Page
0.051852
Description
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, just about every explorer who sailed beyond the horizon to find new lands thought he knew where he was going. In fact, most got terribly lost and stumbled on places no one had ever heard of.