Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.1
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
174
Points per Word
0.002874
Page Count
16
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
This is an illustrated picture book of Langston Hughes's classic 1926 poem about a Black boy listening to a relative's shadow-crossed stories of slavery. Text contains racism.