Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
5.1
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
6156
Points per Word
0.000162
Description
Too weakened by illness to be a hunter, nine-year-old Teo is apprenticed to the toolmaker Mova but leads a lonely existence until he finds and befriends an orphaned wolf cub. But food is scarce, and the leader of the clan is against keeping the animal.