Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
19125
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
118
Points per Page
0.025424
Series
Passages to History
Description
In 1858, an escaped slave discovers that freedom does not guarantee equality when he tries to find work as an apprentice carpenter in Cairo, Illinois.