Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.7
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
42285
Points per Word
0.000166
Page Count
245
Points per Page
0.028571
Description
In the mid-1800s, while serving as cook's apprentice on his uncle's schooner with his pet monkey, Allie, twelve-year-old Ray discovers that they are transporting a fugitive slave to the free north.