Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.9
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
39375
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
178
Points per Page
0.033708
Series
Young Founders
Description
Seventeen-year-old Patrick dreams of going to college until news arrives of his father's death at Gettysburg. When the family sells their farm and moves north in search of a better life, they find drudgery and poverty in industrial New England.