Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.0
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
12711
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
96
Points per Page
0.020833
Series
Snapshots in History
Description
On a Sunday morning in September 1963, a bomb blew open the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four African American girls. The attack was the work of the Ku Klux Klan, a shadowy racist organization.