Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
8715
Points per Word
0.000115
Page Count
62
Points per Page
0.016129
Description
In 1930s rural Mississippi, a 10-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers. The plot contains violence and racial slurs.