AR Book Level
5.1
AR Points
7
Word Count
44,644
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
162924 EN
About this book
In a small town during the 1920s, Clem is torn between family responsibility and the life he wishes to lead when he must begin working in the lead mine on his thirteenth birthday to help pay for his sister's medical care. The plot contains violence.