Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.0
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1260
Points per Word
0.000397
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
This story is a fictionalized account of Virginia slave Henry "Box" Brown, who escaped to freedom by shipping himself North inside a wooden crate.