Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
8.2
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
39021
Points per Word
0.000179
Page Count
250
Points per Page
0.028
Description
This book shares the chilling story of three idealistic young men who were lynched in 1964 by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi as they were trying to register African Americans to vote as part of the Freedom Summer effort to bring democracy to the South.