Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
25792
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
160
Points per Page
0.025
Description
After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.