Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
47270
Points per Word
0.000148
Page Count
247
Points per Page
0.02834
Description
This coming-of-age story shares the life of Jack, a boy growing up in a Southern Appalachian town environmentally devastated by a century of poor copper-mining practices and pollution.