Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.9
Points
29.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
171988
Points per Word
0.000169
Page Count
416
Points per Page
0.069712
Description
In this blistering memoir, McCall chronicles his passage from the street to the prison yard, and to the newsrooms of the Washington Post. The plot contains profanity and sexual references.