Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.6
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
33833
Points per Word
0.000177
Description
Clopinet is lame and his father sneers at his dreams of being a sailor. As a tailor's apprentice, miserable and desperate, he escapes his cruel master and finds the sea.