Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.1
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
44796
Points per Word
0.000156
Page Count
277
Points per Page
0.025271
Description
In 1938, with the help of a lady doctor and an aging, card-cheating, dice-rolling horse thief, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals thirteen horses from Chickalookee, Florida's doomed rodeo, and finds a family in the process.