Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
8.8
Points
24.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
129489
Points per Word
0.000185
Page Count
416
Points per Page
0.057692
Description
Eliza Sommers, a Chilean orphan, follows her lover to the California gold fields and meets a Chinese doctor who becomes her good friend and savior. What begins as a search for her elusive lover ends up as the conquest of personal freedom.