Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.6
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
73197
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
282
Points per Page
0.039007
Description
In 1983, at an elite boys' boarding school in Zimbabwe, thirteen-year-old English lad Robert Jacklin finds himself torn between his black roommate and the white bullies still bitter over losing power through the recent civil war.