Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.1
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
27274
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
277
Points per Page
0.01444
Description
Told in riveting, keenly observed poetry, this book is a moving first-person narrative as experienced by a young survivor of the tragic Donner Party of 1846. The text contains descriptions of violence and cannibalism.