Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.8
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
62038
Points per Word
0.000161
Page Count
384
Points per Page
0.026042
Description
Yale student William Johnson spends the summer of 1876 in the West, hunting for dinosaur fossils in treacherous territory amidst warring Indian tribes. The story contains slurs, negative stereotypes, violence, mild profanity, and sexual situations.