Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
33258
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
163
Points per Page
0.030675
Description
Twelve-year-old orphan Kit Buckles becomes a stage boy in a London theater in 1598, tries his hand at acting, and later helps build the Globe Theatre for playwright William Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain's Men. The plot contains violence.