Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1669
Points per Word
0.0003
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
Once a year, on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, coral polyps simultaneously release their eggs and sperm into the ocean where the larvae journey through predator-filled waters to their final destination as a part of a reef colony.