Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
54243
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
317
Points per Page
0.025237
Description
A twelve-year-old street urchin and the son of Chicago's most important jeweler strike up an unlikely friendship in the days before the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and both are nearly trapped when the city goes up in flames.