Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.6
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1268
Points per Word
0.000394
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
This is the true story of the Matthew and Mae Bertha Carter family, in simple text with illustrations, and how they helped to integrate an all-white school in Drew, Mississippi, in 1965, suffering years of name-calling, humiliation, and death threats.