Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
25274
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
176
Points per Page
0.022727
Description
Twelve-year-old Matthew is drawn almost against his will to help a boy his own age who was lost in a mining disaster a century before. An ALA Notable Book and a NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies.