Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
64206
Points per Word
0.000156
Page Count
246
Points per Page
0.04065
Description
This account, from the point of view of a pony, tells what it was like to be part of Captain Robert Scott's 1910 expedition to reach the South Pole before rival Roald Amundsen. The plot contains descriptions of animal cruelty.