Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.1
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2016
Points per Word
0.000248
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
A self-taught young slave astonishes his fellow prisoners by reading aloud the newspaper account of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.