Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
34137
Points per Word
0.000146
Page Count
142
Points per Page
0.035211
Description
Shortly after the Christmas of 1863, fourteen-year-old Moses thinks he is beginning a new, free life when he becomes part of a group of other former slaves headed for a small island off the coast of Haiti.