Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
70844
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
301
Points per Page
0.036545
Description
As the civil rights movement in the South gains momentum in 1963 and violence against African Americans intensifies, the black residents in the small town of Kuckachoo, Mississippi, including seventh-grader Addie, begin their struggle for racial justice.