Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.5
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
51649
Points per Word
0.000174
Page Count
210
Points per Page
0.042857
Description
As part of a Spanish expedition to the New World, a Jesuit seminarian witnesses the enslavement and exploitation of the Mayas and his own seduction by greed and ambition.