Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
62063
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
302
Points per Page
0.029801
Description
Luc, a youth born with one ear and raised by a drunken father in fifteenth-century France, finds a better home with a fisherman, his sister, and their ward, Beatrice, the daughter of a disgraced knight, until he is captured by Saracen and enslaved.