Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.2
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1703
Points per Word
0.000294
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
In 1847 Missouri, a new state law declared that "No person shall keep any school for the instruction of negroes or mulattoes." But Reverend John, "a force like the Mississippi River itself," finds a way to open his freedom school.