Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
43416
Points per Word
0.000138
Page Count
240
Points per Page
0.025
Description
In the summer of 1964, a thirteen-year-old white boy, whose best friend is black, is caught in the middle when civil rights workers and Ku Klux Klan members clash in a small town near Tupelo, Mississippi.