Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.8
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
31681
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
141
Points per Page
0.035461
Description
Following the American Revolution, an eleven-year-old boy becomes the captive of a ruthless man who has set his own "nation," supported by piracy, on a remote part of the New Jersey coast.