Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.3
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
18860
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
96
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
In Mississippi in the early 1900s, ten-year-old David Logan's family generously share their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.