Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
2.7
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
238
Points per Word
0.002101
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.010417
Series
African American Quartet
Description
In this story based on true events, Jalani, a freed slave, gives the lock that held him in chains to his eldest child as a symbol of his enslavement.