Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.9
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
2660
Points per Word
0.000188
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.010417
Description
Poems tell the story of nineteenth-century teacher Prudence Crandall and the students she taught at her Canterbury, Connecticut, school for African American girls before persecution forced its closing. The coauthor is Marilyn Nelson.