Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.0
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
63003
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
217
Points per Page
0.041475
Series
Tillerman Family Cycle
Description
The prequel to Dicey's Song and Homecoming, in which eighteen-year-old Samuel "Bullet" Tillerman begins to question his racial prejudices when a black student joins the school track team.