Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.4
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
39139
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
153
Points per Page
0.039216
Description
Although Arly Poole seems bound to follow in his father's footsteps as a field worker in Jailtown, Florida, where his family lives in 1927 in the shadow of a cruel boss, his world suddenly seems larger when a schoolteacher comes to town.