Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.0
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
57500
Points per Word
0.000139
Page Count
296
Points per Page
0.027027
Description
It is 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete is a regular kid in Brooklyn who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas. When an FBI agent shows up at his doorstep accusing his father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery.