The Year They Burned the Books cover

The Year They Burned the Books

Author: Garden, Nancy

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 5.5
Points 9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 59154
Points per Word 0.000152
Page Count 247
Points per Page 0.036437

Description

While trying to come to terms with her own lesbian feelings, Jamie, a high-school senior and editor of the school newspaper, finds herself in the middle of a battle with a group of townspeople over the new health education curriculum.