Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
34361
Points per Word
0.000146
Description
In 1937 Alabama, 11-year-old Brother gains insight into prejudice when he befriends the nephew of the family's maid, and dreams of riding a train with the railroad men who serve as his substitute fathers. The plot contains violence and racial slurs.