Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
13983
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
96
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
A father and his eighteen-year-old son are each affected differently by their experiences as slaves in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century.