Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
51793
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
211
Points per Page
0.037915
Description
Growing up in rural Alabama in the 1950s, eleven-year-old Alice has no one to talk to but Leroy, the black farm hand, but when Alice's doctor father moves the family to Tennessee, she has trouble fitting in and she sorely misses Leroy.