Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
38901
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
254
Points per Page
0.023622
Description
Emmet, a fifteen-year-old orphan, learns hard lessons about survival when he sails from England in 1577 as a servant aboard the "Pelican," later named the "Golden Hind," the ship of his cousin, the explorer and pirate Francis Drake.