Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.6
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
76105
Points per Word
0.000171
Page Count
275
Points per Page
0.047273
Description
The bond of friendship is tested when the fathers of two 12-year-old boys become enemies during the Borden Casket Company labor strike. When violence erupts, the boys can no longer ignore the world has forever changed. The plot contains violence.