Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
6.8
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
14026
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
260
Points per Page
0.007692
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mateo and other Caribbean islanders face discrimination, segregation, and harsh working conditions when American recruiters lure them to the Panamanian rain forest in 1906 to build the great canal.