Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.1
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1663
Points per Word
0.000301
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
At the request of his fellow slave Granny Judith, Christmas John risks his life to take runaways across a river from Kentucky to Ohio. This story is based on slave narratives recorded in the 1930s.