Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.7
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
65606
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
320
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
Warmth, humor and hard times prevail as a black family struggles to maintain dignity and independence in Depression-era Mississippi.Text contains profanity and racial slurs.