Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.6
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
22161
Points per Word
0.000135
Page Count
164
Points per Page
0.018293
Description
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces danger and ugly truths when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.