Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
59920
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
272
Points per Page
0.033088
Description
In 1917 Alabama, twelve-year-old Dit Sims and his new friend, Emma, work together to come up with a plan that could save the town barber, a black man who is accused of a terrible crime. The plot contains the theme and language of racism.