Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.4
Points
17.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
101846
Points per Word
0.000167
Description
In the spring of 1903 a ship explodes as it docks on the Scottish island of Kissack & Skilling. Young Billie Paxton is among the only survivors. Billie will not say why, before the explosion, she jumped from ship to shore.