Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.6
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
8683
Points per Word
0.000115
Page Count
64
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
During a malaria epidemic in late eighteenth-century Cleveland, Ohio, ten-year-old Seth Doan surprises his family, his neighbors, and himself by having the strength to carry and grind enough corn to feed everyone.