Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
18607
Points per Word
0.000161
Page Count
128
Points per Page
0.023438
Description
Ten-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister are stranded when their drunken father dies at a remote fishing cabin in the Yukon and, as a result, they spend a summer trying to cope with dwindling food supplies and hostile wildlife.