The Darkest Corner cover

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.