Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
54339
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
224
Points per Page
0.035714
Description
Helen is only thirteen, and she’s not sure that she wants to spend the next two years on an Arctic expedition. But since her father died, the only work her mother has been able to find is as a seamstress aboard the Karluk.