Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
42562
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
209
Points per Page
0.028708
Description
Tia lives with her mother in a white slum in New Orleans and sings in the gospel choir. When practice is interrupted by a shooting and a baby is killed, Tia is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father.