Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.4
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
56814
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
261
Points per Page
0.034483
Description
Born of a brief encounter between his mother and an African-American soldier in Liverpool in 1907, Beck is orphaned as a young boy and sent overseas to the Catholic Brothers in Canada. Contains sexual violence, swearing, and sexual slang.