Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.8
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
5302
Points per Word
0.000189
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Series
Gateway Greens
Description
Discusses the life and work of the Brazilian rubber tapper whose efforts to secure fair treatment for other tappers and to preserve the Amazon rain forests resulted in his murder in 1988.