Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.7
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
23026
Points per Word
0.00013
Page Count
162
Points per Page
0.018519
Description
In 1828, while traveling from Illinois to Kentucky, Jesse and her two brothers and sister lose their parents to the milk sickness and must try to finish the dangerous journey by themselves.