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.