Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
2820
Points per Word
0.000177
Series
Collins Big Cat; Big Cat
Description
This adventure story recounts the first around-the-world voyage of explorer Sir Francis Drake through the eyes of Dickon, a stowaway who goes on to become Drake's cabin boy and personal hero. Text includes violence.