Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
65602
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
284
Points per Page
0.035211
Description
It is 1983, and Vanessa Martin, a 13-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams. But with a dysfunctional family, the odds are against her.