Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.7
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
64364
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
294
Points per Page
0.034014
Description
Left penniless in eighteenth century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousy sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past.