Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.3
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
60394
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
252
Points per Page
0.035714
Description
Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems facing her--to escape from the velvet cage that is Monticello, or to stay and thus remain a slave.