Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.8
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
28064
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
195
Points per Page
0.020513
Series
NO OFFICIAL SERIES TITLE
Description
Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while New Dealers from Washington, DC, arrive to turn run-down Key West into a tourist resort.