Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.0
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
8912
Points per Word
0.000224
Page Count
111
Points per Page
0.018018
Description
For twelve days in May 1961, black and white civil-rights activists, also known as the "Freedom Riders," traveled by bus into the South to draw attention to the unconstitutional segregation still taking place. The text contains racial violence.