Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.4
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
14353
Points per Word
0.000139
Page Count
136
Points per Page
0.014706
Description
Nearly thirty stories, poems, and essays by such authors as Natalie Babbitt, Marilyn Sachs, and Jane Yolen demonstrate some of the environmental problems now plaguing our planet, such as overpopulation, tampering with nature, litter, and pollution.