Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
35073
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
172
Points per Page
0.02907
Series
Hoofbeats
Description
In 1773, 12-year-old Silence works through chores and weekly etiquette lessons to please her mother in hopes of spending time with her horse, Lily, while the men of Boston, including her Loyalist father and brother, discuss a possible war over taxation.