Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
54862
Points per Word
0.000146
Page Count
324
Points per Page
0.024691
Series
Dear America
Description
In the fall of 1955, after the Supreme Court ruling in BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION, 12-year-old Dawn Rae Johnson's learns that she will be attending a previously all-white school. The story contains racial slurs and discrimination.