Quiz # (Quiz Name): 77134 (Young Man and the Sea) Reading Level: 4.5 Interest Level: Middle Grade Point Value: 5.0After his mother dies and his father falls into a deep depression, young Skiff Beaman knows that he will have to be in charge of the family and so sets out to make money by catching the giant blue fin tuna, in a seafaring adventure inspired by Ernest Hemingway s The Old Man and the Sea.