Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
39280
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
196
Points per Page
0.030612
Description
Eleven-year-old "Buckaroo" is exiled to live with an elderly aunt in Cotton Patch, Arkansas. It is 1958, segregation is the norm, and Buckaroo is forced to confront his feelings about blacks.