Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.7
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
73212
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
363
Points per Page
0.030303
Series
NO OFFICIAL SERIES TITLE
Description
Set in 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada, originally a settlement of runaway slaves, and Chatham, Canada, are still haunted by two events--the American Civil War and the Irish potato famine. The plot contains violence associated with the era.