Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55898
Points per Word
0.000161
Page Count
232
Points per Page
0.038793
Description
In the early nineteenth century, when his sea-captain uncle invites him to assist the ship's surgeon on his next voyage, orphaned fourteen-and-a-half-year-old Philip, eager to be with family, accepts only to find out that his uncle is a slave trader.