Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.1
Points
27.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
167468
Points per Word
0.000161
Page Count
466
Points per Page
0.05794
Description
Set in a small Mississippi town in the 1950s, this is the story of a twenty-eight year-old black man and a fifteen-year-old white girl who are searching for their roots and identity. The plot contains profanity and sexual situations.