Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.3
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
18478
Points per Word
0.000162
Description
This book examines the causes and effects of such American disasters as the sinking of the steamboat Sultana in 1871, the Johnstown flood, the Dust Bowl, the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919, and the Exxon Valdez oil spill.