Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
28447
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
345
Points per Page
0.011594
Description
When Grace doesn't heed her family's warnings, the slave family must flee deep into the Great Dismal Swamp, where they brave deadly animals, slave patrollers, and the uncertainty of ever finding freedom. The story is told in free verse.