Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.1
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1747
Points per Word
0.000286
Description
During the influenza epidemic in the early 20th century, Lloyd learns the meaning of courage after he faces separation from his mother and responsibility for a tiny baby on a journey filled with darkness, loneliness, and bad weather.