Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.9
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
46206
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
211
Points per Page
0.033175
Series
Zenta and Matsuzo Samurai
Description
Two unemployed samurai are saved from drowning by the Ainus, a primitive people on a northern Japanese island, and are torn in their loyalties when the possibility of war arises between the Ainus and a band of Japanese settlers.