Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.0
Points
18.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
112155
Points per Word
0.00016
Page Count
480
Points per Page
0.0375
Description
Effia and Esi, half-sisters born in different villages in 18th-century Ghana, have opposite lives as Effia is raised in palatial comfort and Esi is imprisoned and sold into slavery. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and graphic violence.