Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
42539
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
221
Points per Page
0.027149
Description
In 1860, a somewhat simple-minded fifteen-year-old boy attempts to herd one thousand turkeys from Missouri to Denver, Colorado, in hopes of selling them at a profit.