Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
3.9
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
56257
Points per Word
0.000142
Page Count
306
Points per Page
0.026144
Description
In 1959 Georgia, a 12-year-old white girl and a 14-year-old African American girl find their friendship tested when arsonists set fires and the townspeople are separated by Jim Crow laws. The plot contains profanity and negative stereotypes.