Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
40704
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
198
Points per Page
0.030303
Description
In 1850s Pittsburgh, thirteen-year-old Owen leaves his younger brother and sneaks aboard a circus housed in a riverboat, where he befriends a freed slave, learns to work with elephants, and finally comes to terms with the choices he has made in his life.