Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
43332
Points per Word
0.000138
Page Count
267
Points per Page
0.022472
Description
Mella, a young girl trained as a dragonkeeper, learns that the legends of old are true when she is entrusted with carrying a dragon's egg to the fabled Hatching Ground, a dangerous journey on which she is assisted by a knight's squire.