Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
23272
Points per Word
0.000129
Page Count
120
Points per Page
0.025
Description
In early twentieth-century Phippsburg, Colorado, a young girl named Julia, who goes to school with the town bullies, whose father runs the local coal mine, attempts to prevent a disaster at the local mine like the one that struck miners in nearby Ludlow.