Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.9
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
10695
Points per Word
0.000187
Page Count
79
Points per Page
0.025316
Series
Creative Short Stories
Description
In this short story, the first of four that make up the novel The Red Pony, ten-year-old Jody trains the little red pony his father has given him, only to face the possibility that he might lose him to sickness.