Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.4
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
28033
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
176
Points per Page
0.022727
Description
When an African American high-school student is beaten in a white neighborhood and three boys are charged with a hate crime, racial tensions reignite in a long-segregated town. The plot contains profanity, racial slurs, and violence.