Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
13265
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
89
Points per Page
0.022472
Series
Civil War (Stone Arch)
Description
In late 1862, proud Southerner James takes on the responsibility of providing for his newly widowed mother and sister by working for his neighbor alongside the field slave Eli, an experience that questions his beliefs about slavery and the war.