Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.5
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
35988
Points per Word
0.000167
Page Count
163
Points per Page
0.03681
Description
Thirteen-year-old Bois Sec and his uncle BoBo, who travel a Louisiana bayou trading goods from their houseboat, meet a mysterious old woman who claims to know where the pirate Jean Laffite buried a chest full of gold.