Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.0
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
16260
Points per Word
0.000185
Page Count
109
Points per Page
0.027523
Series
Voices from Colonial America
Description
Eyewitness accounts help students compare life during Spanish and British rule, and biographical sidebars introduce legendary figures such as Andrew Jackson and little-known characters like the African slave who became one of the colony's richest women.