Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.7
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
40846
Points per Word
0.000171
Page Count
189
Points per Page
0.037037
Description
Neptune, a slave on Retreat Plantation, St. Simons Island, forms a bond with plantation heir Henry Lord King, and as the boys come of age in the years prior to the Civil War, they find their friendship tested by the bonds of race.