Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.7
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
42565
Points per Word
0.000164
Page Count
224
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
Following their mother's death in Nantucket, Captain Goodspeed brings twelve-year-old Patience and six-year-old Tad aboard his whaling ship, where a new crew member incites a mutiny, and Patience puts her mathematical ability to good use.