Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.4
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
11117
Points per Word
0.00018
Page Count
80
Points per Page
0.025
Description
In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro learns new laws and customs, as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the U.S.