Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
48368
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
216
Points per Page
0.032407
Description
In 1964, twelve-year-old Trip Westbrook lives in Jackson, Mississippi, and discovers the underlying racism in his family and neighborhood when he invites his maid's son Dee to play football in the yard.