Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
36399
Points per Word
0.000137
Page Count
214
Points per Page
0.023364
Series
Dear America
Description
Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.