Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
30318
Points per Word
0.000165
Page Count
337
Points per Page
0.014837
Description
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Jacqueline Woodson felt halfway home in each place. Through free verse, she shares what it was like to grow up as a Black child in the 1960s and 1970s. Book contains violence and themes of bullying and racism.