Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.1
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
82245
Points per Word
0.000146
Page Count
334
Points per Page
0.035928
Description
Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live with her family.