Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
14.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
93274
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
408
Points per Page
0.034314
Description
Having been discovered as a stowaway as she tries to reach Barbados in 1760 to claim her father's estate, teenaged orphan Patricia Kelley struggles to survive by learning to be a ship's doctor's assistant and by disguising herself as a man.