Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.2
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
9766
Points per Word
0.000205
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.041667
Description
This account of the racially motivated bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 that resulted in the deaths of four children tells how the tragedy spurred the passage of the landmark 1964 civil rights legislation.