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The Day They Came to Arrest the Book

Author: Hentoff, Nat

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 6.0
Points 6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 38615
Points per Word 0.000155
Page Count 169
Points per Page 0.035503

Description

When "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is removed from his library for its "immoral" content, school newspaper editor Barney Roth protests with a printed story about previous censorship efforts.