Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
16558
Points per Word
0.000121
Page Count
96
Points per Page
0.020833
Series
Jesse Stuart Foundation
Description
Working to save the mules in their Kentucky community from being butchered at the cannery, Scrappie and his friend Red Mule see their cause vindicated when tractors get stuck in the river mud and only mules can pull them out.