Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.5
Points
17.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
107232
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
391
Points per Page
0.043478
Description
In mid-1860s San Francisco, 16-year-old Aiden wins a ship in a poker game, and is soon involved in Peru's savage guano trade and the exploitation of Chinese workers. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence.