Hottentot Venus: A Novel cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 7.8
Points 21.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 116579
Points per Word 0.00018
Page Count 320
Points per Page 0.065625

Description

This novel is based on the true story of Sarah Baartman, a South African herdswoman exhibited as a "scientific curiosity" in the capitals of nineteenth-century Europe.