Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
30058
Points per Word
0.000166
Page Count
164
Points per Page
0.030488
Description
This book contains the diary entries of thirteen-year-old Simone, a child of mixed African and European ancestry. She reflects about the peculiar caste system in Louisiana before the Civil War.