Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.1
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
44089
Points per Word
0.000136
Page Count
180
Points per Page
0.033333
Description
Having crossed the country with his father during the depression to find work in California, fourteen-year-old Roy encounters cruel exploitation by the Growers' Association of the desperate, impoverished people pouring into the state.