Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.0
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
17238
Points per Word
0.000174
Page Count
88
Points per Page
0.034091
Description
When a lonely boy leaves an orphanage to be apprenticed to a laddermaker only to find out that he is a virtual prisoner, he seeks escape with the one affectionate creature in his life, the dog Mash.