Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.9
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
43778
Points per Word
0.000137
Page Count
228
Points per Page
0.026316
Description
A mysterious stranger arrives at a boy's rundown Alabama farm home just as a dangerous situation is unfolding for the twelve-year-old and his widowed mother. The plot contains violence.