Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
57339
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
232
Points per Page
0.038793
Description
When their mother dies in 1897, twelve-year-old Billy McGee and his angry, older sister leave Skagway, Alaska, to find their father, who is trekking north to the Klondike to prospect for gold.