Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.4
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
45163
Points per Word
0.000177
Page Count
184
Points per Page
0.043478
Description
This book tells the story of black elementary, middle, and high-school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham in 1963 and succeeded where adults had failed in desegregating one of the most racially violent cities in the United States.