Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
28005
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
144
Points per Page
0.027778
Series
Trailblazer Books
Description
When her family moves to Daytona, Florida, from Statesboro, Georgia, after the Ku Klux Klan burns down her father's business, eight-year-old Celeste becomes one of the first students at Mary Bethune's new school for African-American girls.