Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.0
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
27214
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
176
Points per Page
0.022727
Description
Needing to earn money after his father's death during the influenza epidemic of 1918, Joshua works as a newspaper boy in Boston, one day finding himself in the vicinity of an explosion that sends tons of molasses coursing through the streets.