Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
42628
Points per Word
0.000164
Page Count
208
Points per Page
0.033654
Description
When her father kills himself after losing his money in the stock market crash, twelve-year-old Frances, now a penniless orphan, decides to hop aboard a freight train and live the life of a hobo.