Burning Up cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 5.0
Points 8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 53665
Points per Word 0.000149
Page Count 230
Points per Page 0.034783

Description

When a girl she had met at an inner-city church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community.