Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.2
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
47453
Points per Word
0.000148
Page Count
260
Points per Page
0.026923
Description
This story elaborates on the tale of THE PIED PIPER told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hameln of rats.