Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
36500
Points per Word
0.000164
Page Count
192
Points per Page
0.03125
Series
My Side of the Story
Description
The story follows Elias, an English apprentice to a barber-surgeon who sails to the Jamestown Colony, and Sacahocan, a Pamunkee Indian girl training to be a medicine woman and dream reader. Despite their leaders being at war, the two characters forge a friendship by sharing their medical knowledge. The book is part of the My Side of the Story series and is written at a 5.4 reading level for middle grades.