Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.8
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
816
Points per Word
0.000613
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
This picture-book biography tells the story of Miss Lou's early years, when she was a young girl who loved poetry but felt caught between writing "lines of words like tight cornrows" or words that "beat in time with her heart."