Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.0
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
50225
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
259
Points per Page
0.030888
Description
The everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Michigan in 1963, are drastically changed after a trip to Birmingham, Alabama, where racial violence erupts.