Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
45248
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
328
Points per Page
0.021341
Series
Tru & Nelle
Description
In their small town of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1930, misfits Tru and Nelle strike up a friendship and find a mystery to solve when someone breaks into the drugstore and steals some candy and a fancy brooch. The plot contains racial and gender bias.