Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.1
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1218
Points per Word
0.000411
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
This book is a fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian and who trained his horse to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits, moving the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely.