Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.6
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
65564
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
312
Points per Page
0.032051
Description
Living with her sharecropper grandparents on a cotton plantation, Rose Lee joins local resistance activities in the wake of a black youth's murder by a white mob that has been unjustly acquitted. The plot contains mild profanity and graphic violence.