Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.4
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
6285
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
This biography profiles the life of Loreta Janeta Velázquez, a Cuban woman living in New Orleans, who disguised herself as a man in order to experience freedoms otherwise unattainable to her.