Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.8
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
21973
Points per Word
0.000137
Page Count
148
Points per Page
0.02027
Description
In 1959, fourteen-year-old Steven Truscott was arrested and convicted of the rape and murder of his classmate Lynne Harper. Sentenced to death, Steven fought for forty-seven years before the justice system acknowledged its error.