Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.5
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
80384
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
221
Points per Page
0.058824
Description
In this groundbreaking work, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity and his spiritual, sexual, and moral struggles as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem.