Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
8.6
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
28537
Points per Word
0.000175
Page Count
160
Points per Page
0.03125
Series
European Queens
Description
This biography of Catherine de' Medici, wife of Henry II, discusses her childhood, her arranged marriage to the son of the French king, and her efforts to keep her children in power and to end the conflict between Catholics and Huguenots.