Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.3
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
34561
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
208
Points per Page
0.024038
Description
This fictionalized account of the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, is told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War North Carolina, on a whaling expedition, and finally in California during the Gold Rush.