Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.6
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
23906
Points per Word
0.000167
Page Count
152
Points per Page
0.026316
Description
Thirteen-year-old Calepino, an African slave in the seventeenth-century Caribbean city of Cartagena, works with a Jewish doctor in a leper colony and after helping an Angolan boy and his mother escape, he realizes his true calling.