Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.2
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
10224
Points per Word
0.000196
Page Count
64
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
Drawing on the real background of the Chinese role in the gold rush, the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the settling of the west coast in the nineteenth century, the author describes the frontier life of immigrants.