Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.7
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
86914
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
391
Points per Page
0.033248
Description
Fourteen-year-old bookmaker apprentice Baltasar, pursued by a secret witch-hunting arm of the Inquisition, escapes by joining Columbus's expedition and discovers magical secrets about his own past that his family had tried to keep hidden.