Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
59592
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
314
Points per Page
0.028662
Description
Eleven-year-old Ella seeks information about her family while enjoying a visit with her mother, a jazz singer, in Boston in 1944, then returns to the harsh realities of segregated, small-town South Carolina.