Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
37741
Points per Word
0.000159
Description
In 1859, twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave in Virginia who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.