Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.3
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
42820
Points per Word
0.00014
Page Count
213
Points per Page
0.028169
Description
While working in his grandmother's store in Obadiah, Alabama, during the summer of 1955, thirteen-year-old George and two friends stumble onto evidence of a violent death.