Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.3
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
34679
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
176
Points per Page
0.028409
Series
Ernestine & Amanda
Description
Ernestine and Amanda, two African-American twelve-year-olds growing up under segregation in the 1950s, are brought together when the all-black dance studio where they take lessons is attacked by vandals.