Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
5711
Points per Word
0.000175
Page Count
39
Points per Page
0.025641
Description
This book tells the story of the terrible risks of mining, of a small boy's yearnings for his father, and of the difficulties of leaving something old and familiar to go to something new and unknown.