Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.7
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
31047
Points per Word
0.000161
Page Count
144
Points per Page
0.034722
Description
Maroo, a girl of the late Ice Age, must take charge after her father is killed, and lead her little brother, mother and newborn baby, and aged grandmother to the safety of the winter camp before the first blizzards strike.