Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
51857
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
265
Points per Page
0.030189
Description
When two city folks arrive in the depressed mining town of Grubstake, Colorado, in 1888, sixteen-year-old orphaned Arley tries to discover why they want to buy the supposedly worthless mines in the area.