Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.0
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
59236
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
240
Points per Page
0.0375
Description
In 1957, Sylvia Patterson's life, that of a normal African American teenager, is disrupted by the impending integration of Little Rock's Central High when she is selected to be one of the first black students to attend the previously all white school.