Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.9
Points
37.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
221385
Points per Word
0.000167
Page Count
518
Points per Page
0.071429
Description
Hoppie Groenwald, boxing champion, tells 7-year-old Peekay "first with your head and then with your heart". The small boy, born in a South Africa divided by racism, who comes to lead all the tribes of Africa, carries this advice with him.