Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.6
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
14674
Points per Word
0.000136
Page Count
128
Points per Page
0.015625
Series
Great Escapes (Harper)
Description
In this historical book, Lord William Nithsdale, convicted of treason for fighting alongside Jacobite rebels, is imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1716 awaiting execution. His wife devises a daring plan to smuggle him out of the fortress in disguise. The book recounts the actual escape attempt that allowed the condemned lord to flee England. This is the fifth book in the Great Escapes series.