Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.3
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
63857
Points per Word
0.000157
Description
Willie Cormack sees the sea in his nightmares. The savage oceans seem full of the ghosts of drowned fisherman and hands reaching out to pull him down into the dark. Then a lone sailor arrives in his tiny community and it is thrown into turmoil.