Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.9
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
47004
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
161
Points per Page
0.043478
Description
Despite horrible conditions at the boy's home where kidnappers have left him, eleven-year-old Colley, an orphan, finds a reason and a way to live, along with comradeship.