Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.5
Points
19.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
115580
Points per Word
0.000164
Page Count
276
Points per Page
0.068841
Description
This book chronicles a year spent in the ghettos of South Central Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Milwaukee, following girl gangs, tracing the lives of several key gang members, and looking at the issues that drove them into a life of violence.