Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.2
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1596
Points per Word
0.000313
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
In Canada early in the twentieth century, Ben, the youngest in a family of Jewish immigrants struggling to make ends meet, decides to help out. When a hatmaker gives him a chance, disaster strikes and Ben nearly loses hope.