Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.7
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
38041
Points per Word
0.000158
Description
Hero's father has been taken away to be sent back to the slave plantation, and Hero has been forced to move in with her mother's family in the east end of London. They despise Hero for being half black and the daughter of an escaped slave.