Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
35263
Points per Word
0.000142
Page Count
184
Points per Page
0.027174
Description
In Texas in the mid-1950s, twelve-year-old Silvy tries to make sense of her parents' problems, a Supreme Court ruling that will integrate her school, the prejudice of her family and friends, as well as her own behavior, which always seems to be wrong.