Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.2
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
9858
Points per Word
0.000203
Page Count
79
Points per Page
0.025316
Series
Great Explorations
Description
This book describes the life of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, the Spanish explorer who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean and who conceived the idea of a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific.