Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.0
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
62978
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
368
Points per Page
0.024457
Description
Tired of his mother's overprotectiveness and intrigued by the life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.