Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
2.6
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1538
Points per Word
0.000325
Page Count
51
Points per Page
0.009804
Series
Red Rhino Nonfiction
Description
Nine high school students in Little Rock, Arkansas, were at the heart of the battle to integrate schools in the late 1950s. Many places in the south were slow to change, but things got especially heated in Little Rock, Arkansas.