Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
81536
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
295
Points per Page
0.044068
Description
Colton, son of a black mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express after his father abandons the family on their way to California, and risks his life to deliver a letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.