Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.8
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
52270
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
188
Points per Page
0.042553
Description
In 1863, while helping to get a wagon train full of cotton from Missouri to an open port in Texas, Vin envies his older brother in the Confederate Army, but finds that his unglamorous task involves thrills and courage.