Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.3
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
57380
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
307
Points per Page
0.029316
Description
Despite the harsh treatment he has endured at the Lovell House orphanage, ten-year-old Gib Whittaker manages to maintain his hopeful outlook when he is "farmed out" to help with the horses of a wealthy banker in 1908.