Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.0
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
28215
Points per Word
0.000142
Description
With the threat of further violence from pro-slavery border ruffians ever-present, nine-year-old Bill must run the farm, even after his father comes home to recuperate from his knife wound, and go to school.