Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.2
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
21813
Points per Word
0.000138
Page Count
147
Points per Page
0.020408
Description
While traveling by train and stagecoach to her aunt's home in Redbud, quiet young Emily and her turtle, Rufus, team up with Jackson, fellow orphan and troublemaker extraordinaire, to outsmart mean Uncle Victor, who is after Emily's inheritance.