Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
5.8
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
903
Points per Word
0.000554
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
This is a poem describing the rise and fall of Rhyolite, a town in the desert of southwestern Nevada which grew from one gold claim to a town of 10,000 people, then, a few years later, was deserted.