Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
34656
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
256
Points per Page
0.019531
Description
Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement. The plot contains graphic violence. The coauthor is Renée Watson.