Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.5
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
6290
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
This biography profiles the life of Sylvia Mendez, who helped desegregate California schools in the 1940s in the landmark federal case Mendez v. Westminster.