Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
46023
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
258
Points per Page
0.027132
Description
Mac is outraged when he discovers that several words in his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out. Text includes sexual prejudice, gender bias, imagery that may be disturbing, and references to racism and cultural bias.