Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.6
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
30202
Points per Word
0.000166
Page Count
187
Points per Page
0.026738
Series
Royal Diaries
Description
In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a sixth-century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl.