Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.0
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
56976
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
210
Points per Page
0.042857
Description
Twelve-year-old Kate and her new stepbrother, Seth, take the family's canal boat down the 184-mile long C&O Canal to deliver a cargo of coal during the Civil War.