Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
6702
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
90
Points per Page
0.011111
Description
The story follows Benjamin Postlethwaite, a lonely lighthouse keeper who saves a young boy named Allen from a shipwreck. Years later, Allen returns to the lighthouse, and the two work together to nurse an injured puffin back to health. When Allen is called to fight in World War Two, he must leave the lighthouse and the friendship he has formed with Benjamin. The book is set around a remote lighthouse and spans from Allen's childhood through the Second World War.