Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.8
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
18345
Points per Word
0.000164
Page Count
112
Points per Page
0.026786
Description
Jazmin, an African-American teenager who lives with her sister in a small Harlem apartment in the 1960s, finds strength in writing poetry and keeping a record of the events in her sometimes difficult life.