Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.5
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
82966
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
304
Points per Page
0.039474
Description
Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940s rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.