Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.2
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
52964
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
308
Points per Page
0.025974
Description
It is 1967, and eleven-year-old Ellis Earl Brown loves reading and going to school. One day, Ellis Earl is given a book about a family that is even worse off than his own, and he wonders if happy endings only occur in stories. Book includes racism.