Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
22214
Points per Word
0.000135
Page Count
119
Points per Page
0.02521
Description
In 1905, when his father and brother sail from Greece to Florida to work in the sponge industry, twelve-year-old Tasso stows away on the same ship to share their adventures.