Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.6
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
63517
Points per Word
0.000173
Description
Joshua misses his father and lives for his return from the Arctic. He stows away aboard the next ship sailing north, and is renamed Compass by the crew. But seafaring skills are no match for an Arctic winter. It looks like it might not be a happy ending.