Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.5
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
6232
Points per Word
0.00016
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.025
Description
When the only family that Joshua Chandler has ever known passes away, he decides that now would be a good time to leave his life of slavery behind. He takes a covered wagon, a steamboat, and a train on his journey north to freedom.