Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.1
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
20106
Points per Word
0.000149
Description
In sixteenth-century Venice, money is all-important. Bassanio is penniless, but his friend Antonio offers to help him by making an arrangement with an enemy that puts his life in danger. Contains threat of violence.