Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
60274
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
325
Points per Page
0.027692
Description
Martha Tom crosses the Bok Chitto River, which separates the Choctaw Nation from a white-owned plantation, and she meets enslaved boy Lil Mo. The two become friends, and she helps his family cross the river to freedom. Text includes violence.