Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.6
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1303
Points per Word
0.000384
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
Free verse tells the story of the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, from her childhood in segregated Albany, Georgia, in the 1930s through her recognition at the 1996 Olympics as one of the hundred best athletes in Olympic history.