Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
46633
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
176
Points per Page
0.039773
Description
Thorn, a mysterious boy with a deformed leg, arrives on an island inhabited by the people of the Singing Seals, and though treated with fear and suspicion by most of the natives, is befriended by the girl Willow, chosen to be the next Keeper of Story.