Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
44644
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
181
Points per Page
0.038674
Description
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.