Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.2
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2058
Points per Word
0.000243
Description
This illustrated biography provides a brief look at the life and times of Phillis Wheatley, who was bought as a slave by a wealthy Boston family, taught to read and write, and became colonial America's first African American poet.