Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.1
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
10879
Points per Word
0.000184
Page Count
64
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
This book uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount how construction of the Erie Canal changed America by vastly improving the movement of goods to settlers in the newly purchased Louisiana Territory.