Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.2
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
63310
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
343
Points per Page
0.029155
Description
Orphaned twelve-year-old Nika and her seven-year-old brother, Randall, leave a California foster home to visit a long-lost uncle in the wilderness lake country of northern Minnesota.