Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.1
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
17506
Points per Word
0.000114
Page Count
96
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
When fighting breaks out in Texas in 1836, the approach of the Mexican army forces Manda and her family to flee their home and seek refuge in the open countryside.