Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.1
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
41903
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
172
Points per Page
0.034884
Series
Art Encounters
Description
In Tahiti in the 1890s, sixteen-year-old Joe, a native Californian and a sailor, is determined to avenge the death of his best friend at the hands of a gun smuggler known as the White Wolf, and finds an unlikely ally in the artist, Paul Gauguin.