Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
3.4
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2459
Points per Word
0.000203
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
In 1871, petty thief Timothy Shannon is released from jail near Chicago. He dodges a police officer who is tailing him, then visits a barn on West DeKoven Street. Somehow, a fire starts and spreads across the city.