Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.0
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
41734
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
201
Points per Page
0.029851
Description
In 1862, a ten-year-old girl and an old woman start a new life after they escape from a slave trader and are rescued by Union soldiers, who take them as "contraband of war" to Fortress Monroe in Hampton, Virginia.