Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.5
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
41222
Points per Word
0.000146
Page Count
245
Points per Page
0.02449
Description
After his best friend is shot and killed, fourteen-year-old Langston borrows his science teacher's time machine and travels from Los Angeles in 2010 to Oxford, England, in 1278, to try to prevent Roger Bacon from publishing his formula for gunpowder.