The Sittin' Up cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 4.4
Points 7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 47752
Points per Word 0.000147
Page Count 226
Points per Page 0.030973

Description

When the patriarch of twelve-year-old Bean's sharecropping community dies, Bean gets a lesson in not only what it means to lose someone you love but also in how his family cares for their dead. The plot contains racial slurs and negative stereotypes.