Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
41104
Points per Word
0.000146
Page Count
178
Points per Page
0.033708
Description
Called to follow the wind and search for clues about his father who disappeared, 13-year-old Chengli, carrying a piece of jade with strange writing that had belonged to his father, joins a caravan that navigates the dangers of the Silk Road in 630 A.D.