Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.8
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
59922
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
310
Points per Page
0.029032
Series
Golden Mountain Chronicles
Description
In 1885, a lonely illegitimate American boy and a lonely Chinese American boy develop an unlikely friendship in the midst of prejudice and racial tension in their coal mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming.