Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
33771
Points per Word
0.000148
Page Count
148
Points per Page
0.033784
Description
Young Ben Sterndale begins work as a cellar lad in Dyson's Sythe Works in mid-nineteenth-century Sheffield, and watches what happens when Dyson hires non-union labor.