Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.8
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
10872
Points per Word
0.000184
Page Count
94
Points per Page
0.021277
Series
Stories of the States
Description
As they mingled with gold miners in their parents' dining hall eleven-year-old David and his younger sister are caught up in the debate about California's statehood and slavery.