Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55054
Points per Word
0.000163
Page Count
272
Points per Page
0.033088
Description
When a big coal company takes over the local mine, Curley's world on the mountain is turned upside down. Can the power of words save a way of life?