Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.5
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
71237
Points per Word
0.00014
Page Count
306
Points per Page
0.03268
Description
In Alabama in the 1960s, fourteen-year-old Francie develops a controversial and dangerous friendship with a colored girl her own age. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and graphic violence.