Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.8
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
48178
Points per Word
0.000166
Page Count
256
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
When his sharecropper father is killed and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany plantation overseer Cap'n Buck in pursuit of people who have stolen from him. The plot contains mild violence and racial slurs.