Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
10845
Points per Word
0.000184
Page Count
112
Points per Page
0.017857
Description
The son of a North Carolina sharecropper recalls the hard times faced by his family and other African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century and the changes that the civil rights movement helped bring about.