Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.3
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
48387
Points per Word
0.000186
Page Count
176
Points per Page
0.051136
Description
This book recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship ESSEX by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds.