Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
81202
Points per Word
0.000148
Page Count
317
Points per Page
0.037855
Description
This book is a fictionalized account of the adventures of Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of the toes of his left foot.