Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
29510
Points per Word
0.000136
Page Count
115
Points per Page
0.034783
Description
In 1932, when a young Czech American girl and her family move to a small Texas town so her father can work as a stone-mason, they encounter prejudice from the townspeople and violence from the Ku Klux Klan.