Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
51267
Points per Word
0.000156
Page Count
301
Points per Page
0.026578
Description
In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States