Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.1
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
15280
Points per Word
0.000131
Page Count
169
Points per Page
0.011834
Description
Living in Fleming, New Jersey, in 1935, twelve-year-old Katie Leigh Flynn describes, in a series of poems, the effect on her small town of the ongoing trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby son.