Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
43001
Points per Word
0.000163
Page Count
224
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
In 1862, eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War.