Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
8.0
Points
22.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
121003
Points per Word
0.000182
Page Count
704
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
Poverty, disease, and despair are depicted in this story of the barbarous working conditions in the slaughter houses of Chicago in 1900.