Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
50016
Points per Word
0.00016
Page Count
230
Points per Page
0.034783
Description
In pre-Civil War Nebraska Territory, teenager Peter's life is complicated when a strangely hostile father trades away his boy's beloved horse. Peter and the horse are reunited after he joins the Pony Express. The plot contains violence and racial bias.