Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.0
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
62169
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
240
Points per Page
0.0375
Description
In 1937 in southeastern Missouri, eleven-year-old Rass, son of a proud sharecropper, proves his worth when a flood destroys his family's home and forces his best friend, an elderly black man, into hiding from the Ku Klux Klan.