Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.2
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
4658
Points per Word
0.000215
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Series
We the People
Description
This book recounts the controversial 1857 Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, which put the entire future of black Americans in doubt and pushed the country toward the Civil War.