Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.7
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
4823
Points per Word
0.000207
Page Count
80
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
This book recounts the night before Halloween in 1938, when a fake news broadcast about invading Martians sent radio listeners around the country into a panic, and examines why so many people confused entertainment with reality.