The Crimson Cap cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 5.1
Points 6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 42763
Points per Word 0.00014
Page Count 177
Points per Page 0.033898

Description

In 1684, wearing his father's faded cap, eleven-year-old Pierre Talon joins explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier on an ill-fated expedition to seek the Mississippi River, but after the expedition falls apart Pierre, deathly ill, is taken in by Hasinai Indians.