Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
7184
Points per Word
0.000139
Page Count
72
Points per Page
0.013889
Description
David (Siu-Long) Wong and his parents have encountered terrible prejudice because they are Chinese immigrants; but here they are given a job at John Bell Hatcher's paleontological excavation digging up dinosaur bones.