Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.5
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
37037
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
186
Points per Page
0.032258
Description
A series of vignettes reveal life in the Deep South for African Americans as they experience discrimination in a doctor's office, lynching, and other forms of oppression, especially during the 1960s.