Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.2
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
21808
Points per Word
0.000138
Page Count
104
Points per Page
0.028846
Description
Fifteen-year-old Whichaway, son of a stone-faced Arizona rancher, legs broken in an accident atop a windmill, struggles to survive after cattle rustlers have left him to die. The coauthor is Kathryn Swarthout.