Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
16831
Points per Word
0.000178
Page Count
104
Points per Page
0.028846
Description
Perro Viejo, an old black Cuban slave, has known no other life than that of servitude. He and Beira help Aísa, a ten-year-old runaway slave, escape and for the first time in his life, Perro Viejo knows what it is to love and to be free.