Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.5
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
49140
Points per Word
0.000142
Page Count
209
Points per Page
0.033493
Description
In Richmond, Australia, in 1919, fifteen-year-old Charlie Feehan becomes an errand boy for a notorious mobster, hoping that his ability to run will help him, his widowed mother, and his baby brother to escape poverty.