Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.3
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
66905
Points per Word
0.000164
Page Count
313
Points per Page
0.035144
Description
In 1835, when his father is put in debtors' prison, 12-yr-old chess prodigy Rufus Goodspeed is relieved to be recruited to secretly operate a chess-playing automaton but soon questions his own safety. The plot contains violence.