Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.9
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
44614
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
214
Points per Page
0.03271
Description
In this memoir of growing up in the Jim Crow South, Melba Pattillo Beals includes drawings and photos of her powerful journey on the road to becoming a champion of equal rights. The text contains descriptions of racial violence.