Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.2
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
51883
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
233
Points per Page
0.034335
Description
In 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, Samantha moves with her mother to Jackson, Mississippi. During the year they spend there, Sam encounters both love and hate as she witnesses the prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South.