Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
3.7
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
54865
Points per Word
0.000146
Page Count
263
Points per Page
0.030418
Description
Fifteen-year-old Caleb faces a power struggle with his father and fights to keep his temper in dealing with whites and the German prisoners of war brought to his community during World War II. The plot contains profanity and violence.