Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.9
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
40721
Points per Word
0.000147
Description
Hedley Hopkins has a few problems: he is the new kid at school, straight off the boat from England in the 1950's. If he could just fulfill a dare and dig out the hideous skull hidden in a grave behind the sand dunes, he could impress everyone at school.