Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
17043
Points per Word
0.000117
Page Count
89
Points per Page
0.022472
Series
Adventures in America
Description
Mateo becomes a mule driver, bringing supplies to California gold miners and searching for the bandit who stole his horse, but when he learns that Yankee squatters are threatening to take the ranch he grew up on, Mateo heads for home.