Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.9
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
73675
Points per Word
0.000163
Page Count
272
Points per Page
0.044118
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to religion classes, seventh-grader Holling stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of Shakespeare and he learns about the world he lives in.