Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.5
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
68323
Points per Word
0.000146
Page Count
260
Points per Page
0.038462
Description
Three Southern children, two black and one white, escape from their homes during the horrors of the Civil War and, after meeting in the woods, gradually come to rely on each other as they make their way slowly north to Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.