Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.9
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1470
Points per Word
0.00034
Page Count
28
Points per Page
0.017857
Description
Bused across town to a school in a white neighborhood of Boston in 1974, a young African American boy named Brewster describes his first day in first grade.