Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
39765
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
231
Points per Page
0.025974
Description
After three years in a barbarous orphanage, Nicholas is raised in near-isolation in a castle, where he is watched every moment, prevented from reading or seeing the outside world, and given "treatments" designed to retrieve some forgotten information.