Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.2
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
33017
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
368
Points per Page
0.013587
Description
A young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother’s religion and her own relationship to the world. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence.