Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.2
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
13974
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
89
Points per Page
0.022472
Description
His dying mother's insistence leads an eleven-year-old black child to be raised by his disabled uncle in the swamps of the Mississipi Delta in the early 1900s, and to recall her tireless work to fund a stained glass window for her church.