Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.1
Points
18.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
120287
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
365
Points per Page
0.049315
Description
In 1961, the story of Homer "Sonny" Hickam continues as he returns home from college for the summer to support his cool and distant father, who has been accused of negligence in a man's death in the coal-mining town of Coalwood.