Light It Up cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 3.7
Points 10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 73306
Points per Word 0.000136
Page Count 358
Points per Page 0.027933

Description

Told from multiple viewpoints, Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators. Text contains profanity and sexual situations.