Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.8
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
8288
Points per Word
0.000121
Page Count
62
Points per Page
0.016129
Description
Four of us had traveled four thousand miles to test our kayaking skills against some of the world's most extreme weather and sea conditions. The last people to kayak among these islands were the Aleuts, who had invented the kayak centuries before.