Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.0
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
59937
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
250
Points per Page
0.036
Description
A fifteen-year-old Ohio girl longing for adventure gets her wish when she moves to Panama with her father, who has been hired to work on the Panama Canal. The plot contains explicit sexual situations and language of racial bias.