Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.1
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
44928
Points per Word
0.000156
Page Count
167
Points per Page
0.041916
Description
In the 1680s, as payment for a bad debt, Anglo-Dutch trader Jacob accepts a slave girl named Florens, whose anguished mother hopes she will have a better life.