Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.6
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
35486
Points per Word
0.000169
Page Count
186
Points per Page
0.032258
Series
Matty Trescott
Description
In the late 1850s, with her mother dead and her brother riding for the Pony Express, Matty often finds that she must face all the dangers of pre-Civil War Kansas alone on the family farm.