Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.0
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
39069
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
161
Points per Page
0.037267
Description
Fourteen-year-old Shem spends six months in the Michigan wilderness alone with a dying Indian woman, who helps him not only to survive but to mature to the point where he can return to his family and the difficulties of life as a cripple.