Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.1
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
53307
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
294
Points per Page
0.027211
Description
In 1815 on the remote island of Saint Helena, a fourteen-year-old Betsy Balcombe develops a friendly relationship with Napoleon Bonaparte who, after his defeat at Waterloo, is brought there as an exile and is housed with her family.