Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
50413
Points per Word
0.000139
Page Count
228
Points per Page
0.030702
Description
Thirteen-year-old Prometheus Jones and his eleven-year-old cousin Omer flee Tennessee and join a cattle drive that will eventually take them to Texas, where Prometheus hopes to find his father. The plot contains mild profanity and sexual innuendoes.