Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.0
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
63003
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
217
Points per Page
0.041475
Series
Tillerman Family Cycle
Description
In this prequel to DICEY'S SONG and HOMECOMING, eighteen-year-old Samuel "Bullet" Tillerman begins to question his racial prejudices when a black student joins the school track team.