Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.6
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
52476
Points per Word
0.000172
Page Count
197
Points per Page
0.045685
Description
When Alfredo, a twelve-year-old choir boy in eighteenth-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, he goes to live with Uncle Giorgio, who he discovers is a sorcerer in control of the fires of Mt. Etna with sinister plans for his nephew.