Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.4
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55968
Points per Word
0.000161
Page Count
245
Points per Page
0.036735
Description
Thirteen-year-old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine.