Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.1
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
30528
Points per Word
0.000131
Page Count
149
Points per Page
0.026846
Description
In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.