Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.8
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
52475
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
220
Points per Page
0.036364
Description
In 1775, twelve-year old orphan Gabriel Cooper gathers his few belongings and the old drum he finds at the edge of the East River and sets off from New York along the Post Road, intending to join the fight for freedom.