Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.2
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
53202
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
193
Points per Page
0.041451
Description
In 1887, sixteen-year-old Tom Ormsby, as assistant to Henry Morton Stanley, renowned explorer of the African continent, makes a perilous trek to help rescue the kidnapped Emin Pasha, learning about leadership, African people, and himself along the way.