Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
45383
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
196
Points per Page
0.035714
Description
This is a fictional biography of a son of a Southern sharecropper for whom illiteracy was an even greater burden than the prejudice he had faced throughout his life.