Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.6
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
25243
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
143
Points per Page
0.027972
Description
Following her grandfather's death in rural North Carolina in 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae learns more about her family after reading her grandmother's collection of obituaries and traveling to Harlem to find her uncle who has escaped from the KKK.