Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.8
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
21580
Points per Word
0.000139
Page Count
152
Points per Page
0.019737
Series
Great Lakes Books
Description
In 1935 Detroit, a twelve-year-old African American boy learns about the realities of racial injustice while working for his father's wood company during the Great Depression.