Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.5
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
45884
Points per Word
0.000174
Page Count
269
Points per Page
0.02974
Description
Walter Dean Myers tells the details of his Harlem childhood in the 1940s and 1950s and how he came to be a writer.