Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.4
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1867
Points per Word
0.000268
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.010417
Description
This book relates how, in 1861, a boy named Charlie Miller became the youngest rider for the Pony Express, a mail service that linked the East and West Coasts of the United States.