The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: The Donner Party Expedition/Stay Alive
Author: Philbrick, Rodman
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.7
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
27701
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
155
Points per Page
0.025806
Series
My Name Is America
Description
Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-1847.