Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.9
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55340
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
247
Points per Page
0.032389
Description
In 1897, Nate, the hot-tempered twelve-year-old son of a wealthy Pennsylvania mine owner, goes against his father's wishes by befriending some of the boys who work in the mines and gets caught up in a disastrous clash between mine workers and the law.