Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2982
Points per Word
0.000168
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.010417
Series
Exploring the World
Description
This book is a biography of the seventeenth-century French explorer who was the first European to travel the entire length of the Mississippi River, claiming for France not only that river, but also all the land whose waters fed into it.