Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.2
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1590
Points per Word
0.000314
Description
On his first day in a coal mine working alongside his father, a young boy is rescued by his father's pit pony, who at the end of the day is brought aboveground for the first time.