Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
8.5
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
33020
Points per Word
0.000182
Page Count
148
Points per Page
0.040541
Description
This is a sympathetic historical examination of early-twentieth-century Irish-American cook Mary Mallon, who was immortalized as "Typhoid Mary" after a sanitary engineer traced a 1904 typhoid fever outbreak back to her Long Island kitchen.