Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.9
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
35854
Points per Word
0.000167
Page Count
224
Points per Page
0.026786
Description
This Maya Angelou autobiography begins in 1964 when she returns to the US from Africa to work with Malcolm X, discusses her reaction to his assassination, her firsthand view of the Watts riots, and her subsequent work with Martin Luther King Jr.