Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.4
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
42776
Points per Word
0.00014
Page Count
224
Points per Page
0.026786
Description
When union members arrive to organize their West Virginia coal mining town, fourteen-year-old Clarence, shunned for his cleft lip, and his neighbor Elizabeth narrate the changes in their own lives and in the lives of everyone in their community.