Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.3
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1050
Points per Word
0.000476
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
Each day Chrislove asks his friend Josias when he will "hold the book" or join them at school, but Josias can think only of tending the bean garden so that his family will have enough food.