Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
34136
Points per Word
0.000146
Page Count
160
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
Teenager Lee Chin leaves China and goes to California to work on the transcontinental railroad, where he defies his father's wishes, saves his money to free his younger sister from slavery in China, and brings her to join him in America.