Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.0
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
60563
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
307
Points per Page
0.029316
Description
In Stillwater, Mississippi, in 1955, thirteen-year-old African American Rosan Lee Carter looks to her family and friends to understand her place in the burgeoning civil-rights movement. The plot contains violence and racial slurs.