Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
45851
Points per Word
0.000153
Description
In 1851 New Bedford, Maryland, fourteen-year-old sailor Lucky Valera is kidnapped by his estranged half-brother and forced to work in a mill, but while Lucky is plotting his escape, he meets a former slave and a young Quaker girl who influence his plans.