Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.9
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
81883
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
378
Points per Page
0.034392
Description
In the mid-1870s, young teenage scout Thad Longsworth, blood brother to the Sioux visionary Black Elk, finds his destiny linked with that of three rival teams of paleontologists searching for dinosaur bones.