Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.3
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
69714
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
327
Points per Page
0.030581
Description
Twelve-year-old Amelia arrives in San Francisco with her mother and family in 1851 and dresses like a boy in the mostly male town, cutting her hair and wearing a cap to work as a newsboy selling Eastern newspapers.