Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
27839
Points per Word
0.000144
Description
In 1852, Emma, her pregnant mother, and her pony board the steamboat "Sally May" to meet her father in St. Joseph, Missouri, but when the ship explodes in a fiery blaze, everyone onboard must fight for survival in the icy waters of the Missouri River.