Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.0
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
41961
Points per Word
0.000143
Description
In 1803, Juper is boarding at the African Academy in Clapham with other wealthy boys. But when his younger brother vanishes, Jupiter sets off to find him in London where poor black communities, slave and free, struggle to survive.