Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.1
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
3084
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.010417
Description
In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.