Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.1
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
54984
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
240
Points per Page
0.033333
Description
Her relationship with the black woman who works for her family and her friendship with two black neighbors in the small Mississippi town in the 1950s and 1960s, brings Teddy into conflict with her racist father, a member of the local Ku Klux Klan.