Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.0
Points
14.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
86301
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
277
Points per Page
0.050542
Description
Fifteen-year-old Shivana Montgomery, raised by a physically and verbally abusive single mother on the south side of Chicago, learns to cope with the help of her aunt Jewel. The text contains profanity and sexual situations.