Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55777
Points per Word
0.000161
Page Count
196
Points per Page
0.045918
Description
While the Civil War rages in Missouri and Rebels destroy their farm home and scatter their family, thirteen-year-old Jacob and his younger sister find refuge in an unlikely place.