Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.5
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
57678
Points per Word
0.000139
Page Count
227
Points per Page
0.035242
Description
When the devastation wrought by endless dust storms in 1930s Oklahoma makes orphans of Jack, his schoolmate Jane, and her brother, Tony, they take the truck of a dead man and set out to find a new start. The plot contains violence.