Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
24244
Points per Word
0.000165
Page Count
130
Points per Page
0.030769
Series
Rigby Literacy
Description
When ten-year-old Diego’s mother dies, he is sent to an orphanage. Here he learns to read and write, opportunities few poor children have in early sixteenth-century Spain. A lie forces Diego to flee the orphanage and he struggles to survive.