Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.5
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
39165
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
162
Points per Page
0.037037
Description
In 1846 Concord, Massachusetts, sixteen-year-old reporter Oliver investigates a woman's murder, aided by the tracking skills of an Algonquin friend and the deductive skills of Henry David Thoreau. The plot contains racial language.