Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.7
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1870
Points per Word
0.000267
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.010417
Series
On My Own Biography
Description
This book introduces Benjamin Banneker, a free black man of the eighteenth century who loved to learn and used his knowledge and observations to build a wooden clock, write an almanac, and help survey the streets of Washington, D.C.