Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.1
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
44928
Points per Word
0.000156
Page Count
167
Points per Page
0.041916
Description
In the 1680s, Anglo-Dutch trader Jacob accepts a young slave girl named Florens as payment for a bad debt. Florens, abandoned by her mother who hoped she would find a better life, searches for love and connection at her master's new home. She forms relationships with an older servant woman and a handsome free blacksmith.