Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.1
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
12685
Points per Word
0.000158
Description
In this adventure, cousins Beth and Patrick travel to thirteenth-century Libya, where the town of Silene is being terrorized by a creature that is eating the townspeople's livestock. The villagers believe the animal is a dragon sent by the devil and plan to sacrifice a young girl to appease it. Beth tries to save the girl while Patrick joins a Roman knight on a quest to kill the dragon. The coauthor is Wayne Thomas Baston.