Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.8
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
61045
Points per Word
0.000164
Page Count
314
Points per Page
0.031847
Description
When the "Morning Star" sails on the Pacific in 1836, fourteen-year-old Patience Goodspeed can't wait to be the assistant navigator. But when danger strikes, Captain Goodspeed whisks his children off to a boarding school in Hawaii until the ship returns.