Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
31798
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
194
Points per Page
0.025773
Description
Twelve-year-old Gabriel gains new perspective when he becomes friends with Meriwether, a black World War II hero who has recently returned to the unwelcoming Jim Crow South. The story includes graphic violence.