Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.0
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
4001
Points per Word
0.00025
Page Count
62
Points per Page
0.016129
Series
Step-Up Nature Books
Description
Describes 19 animals that have peculiar and strange characteristics, including the platypus which has poison spurs on its legs, the opossum which fools its enemies by pretending to be dead, and the bat which navigates by built-in sonar.