Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
37876
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
189
Points per Page
0.031746
Description
The strong friendship between two boys, one black and one white, who live on a mission in Rhodesia, begins to unravel as protests against white colonial rule intensify in 1964. The coauthor is Philip Merlin Matzigkeit.