Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.2
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
59201
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
201
Points per Page
0.044776
Description
In 1922 Oregon at the height of the anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic referendum, fifteen-year-old Carl, a Polish Catholic, struggles against racism from the Ku Klux Klan to clear his brother's name and solve the mystery of the theft of expensive jewels.