Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
17872
Points per Word
0.000168
Page Count
112
Points per Page
0.026786
Description
A twelve-year-old describes his nine-day struggle to survive after being separated from his companions in the mountains of Maine in 1939.