Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
26513
Points per Word
0.000151
Description
In the early days of the Civil War, Joseph must decide whether to defend his stepfather's abolitionist and pro-Union beliefs or side with the slave owners and Southern rights supporters in his home town of Branson Mills, Kentucky.