Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
5517
Points per Word
0.000181
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.025
Description
A sailor recalls how the eighteen-year-old wife of Captain Joshua Patten took charge of the clipper ship, Neptune's Car, during a race from New York to San Francisco in 1856.