Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
25347
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
100
Points per Page
0.04
Description
Carley recalls the extraordinary summer when, as a troubled fourteen-year-old, he first came to northern Minnesota to stay with his blacksmith uncle David and gained not only new skills but also a new sense of himself.