Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
49357
Points per Word
0.000142
Page Count
212
Points per Page
0.033019
Description
In this suspenseful story the lives of the Carroll family, watermelon farmers in Bolivar, Texas, in 1900, and an old tramp named Tom become intertwined with the Galveston Flood and the legend of Jean Lafitte.