Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.3
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1748
Points per Word
0.000286
Page Count
36
Points per Page
0.013889
Description
A fourteen-year-old African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, uses his typing skills to make a statement as part of the Civil Rights movement.