Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
9.9
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
21768
Points per Word
0.000184
Page Count
128
Points per Page
0.03125
Series
Great Lives
Description
This is the biography of the California astrophysicist who became, with the second mission of the Challenger spacecraft in June 1983, the first American woman and the youngest American astronaut to orbit earth. The coauthor is Sue Hurwitz.