Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.7
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
65606
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
320
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
Warmth, humour and hard times prevail as a black family struggles to maintain dignity and independence in Depression-era Mississippi. Text contains profanity and racial slurs.