Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
27954
Points per Word
0.000143
Description
Eight-year-old Ignatius lives with three sisters, but not as a member of their family. Soon the threat of being sent back to the West Indies to be enslaved is all too real, and Ignatius must escape if he is to build a brilliant life for himself.