Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
56546
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
248
Points per Page
0.032258
Description
To work off a family debt, ten-year-old Hastin leaves his desert village in India to work as a circus elephant keeper, but many challenges await him, including trying to keep Nandita, a sweet elephant, safe from the cruel circus owner.