Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
47752
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
226
Points per Page
0.030973
Description
When the patriarch of twelve-year-old Bean's sharecropping community dies, Bean gets a lesson in not only what it means to lose someone you love but also in how his family cares for their dead. The plot contains racial slurs and negative stereotypes.