Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.6
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
44777
Points per Word
0.000156
Page Count
213
Points per Page
0.032864
Description
In 1851 in South Carolina, Miles, a twelve-year-old slave, is sent to a "breaking ground" to have his spirit broken, but he endures the experience by secretly taking reading lessons from another slave.