Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.6
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
61778
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
223
Points per Page
0.044843
Description
Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.