Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.8
Points
19.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
118604
Points per Word
0.00016
Page Count
642
Points per Page
0.029595
Description
Seven-year-old Arkansas farm boy Luke Chandler loses his innocence over the course of a contentious and strenuous cotton harvest in 1952. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence.