Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
12901
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
96
Points per Page
0.020833
Series
Newbery Honor Roll
Description
Tigre, a twelve-year-old Mayan boy living in a modern-day village in Yucatan, must learn to be a man when his father is injured.