Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
26145
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
171
Points per Page
0.023392
Description
After the freighter on which Phillip and his mother were travelling from wartime Curacao to the US is torpedoed, the boy finds himself dependent on an old West Indain for survival. Text includes images of wartime violence and themes of voodoo.