Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.0
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55701
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
211
Points per Page
0.042654
Description
With his father in the Army Air Forces and his mother diagnosed with tuberculosis, thirteen-year-old Gus sets out to incubate a nest of orphaned duck eggs on his grandparents' farm in Vermont.