Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
62404
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
256
Points per Page
0.035156
Description
Determined after his mother's accidental death to foil his stepfather's plans for his future, fourteen-year-old Jacob travels alone to Africa in search of his father, a biologist studying elephants in a remote area of Kenya.