Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.3
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
12466
Points per Word
0.00016
Page Count
112
Points per Page
0.017857
Description
Fifteenth-century explorer Christopher Columbus opened up the Americas to the people of Europe. His travels to the islands of the Bahamas and the Caribbean, as well as Central and South America, forever altered life in both the old world and the new.