Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.3
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1513
Points per Word
0.00033
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.010417
Description
Rosa Parks, the black woman whose acts of civil disobedience led to the 1956 Supreme Court order to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama, explains what she did and why. The coauthor is Jim Haskins.