Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.8
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
46800
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
154
Points per Page
0.045455
Description
In the early 1950s, eleven-year-old Dal accompanies his stepfather, Mr. Sabatini, on a business trip to a rural community in Idaho, where Dal makes new friends and becomes involved in a scheme involving a uranium mine.