Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
37221
Points per Word
0.000134
Page Count
184
Points per Page
0.027174
Description
In 1950s Tennessee, ten-year-old David's racist father refuses to let him associate with his best friend, Malcolm, an African American boy.