Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
48901
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
181
Points per Page
0.038674
Description
As fighting erupts between the North and the South, eleven-year-old Austin helps his slave friend gain freedom before making his own escape from Charleston, South Carolina.