Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.1
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1312
Points per Word
0.000381
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
In 1945, when young Thomas, his mother, and his new baby brother leave war-torn England to join his stepfather, an American soldier, in Chicago, Thomas finds a way to give courage to a fellow traveler on the "Queen Mary."