Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.7
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
52613
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
207
Points per Page
0.038647
Description
This is the story of thirteen-year-old Betsey Brown, a "colored girl" poised between the enchanted world of childhood and the passionate promises, romantic and political, of the adult world.