Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.0
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
37844
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
172
Points per Page
0.034884
Description
While spending the summer on an archaeological dig near Florence, Italy, with his mother, eleven-year-old Hector meets an Etruscan boy who needs help to foil his treacherous uncle's plan to make him a human sacrifice--1,000 years in the past.