Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.6
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
32315
Points per Word
0.000124
Page Count
176
Points per Page
0.022727
Description
In 1874, eleven-year-old Sam and his family move from Kentucky to the southern Dakota Territory, where harsh conditions and a plague of hungry grasshoppers threaten their chances for survival.