Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.5
Points
15.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
103551
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
507
Points per Page
0.029586
Description
In 1963, determined to get to Nashville to find her mother, nine-year-old spitfire Starla runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home. The plot contains profanity, violence, and racial slurs.