Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
54074
Points per Word
0.000148
Page Count
325
Points per Page
0.024615
Description
In the early 1960s in a rural, racially-charged Texas town, a poor white boy struggling to get through school and a book-loving black classmate find the common ground on which to build true friendship. The coauthor is Donald Davenport.