Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
7.1
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
21461
Points per Word
0.000186
Page Count
128
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
This is the story of Solomon Northup, an African American man kidnapped into slavery and made to suffer through twelve years of bondage before being rescued from a Louisiana cotton plantation by friends from New York. The coauthor is Dennis Fradin.