Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.1
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
59502
Points per Word
0.000134
Page Count
298
Points per Page
0.026846
Description
In 1970s Los Angeles, Charlie and Armstrong forge a friendship under trying circumstances after Armstrong enrolls at a white school as part of an integration program. The plot contains profanity, racial slurs, and violence.