Luc, a youth born with one ear and raised by a drunken father in fifteenth-century France, finds a better home with fisherman Pons, his sister Mattie, and their ward Beatrice, the daughter of a disgraced knight, and even after being kidnapped and sold into slavery in Africa, he remains remarkably fortunate. Interest Level: 5-8 Reading Level: 6.7 ATOS Book Level: 4.6 AR Interest Level: MG AR Points: 9 AR Quiz: 152685EN Reading Counts Level: 4.3 Reading Counts Points: 16 Lexile Measure: 690.