Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.0
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
74231
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
237
Points per Page
0.050633
Description
Author Lorene Cary, an African-American, remembers her adolescence at the formerly all-white, all-male St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, and tells of the pains she endured in order to succeed without selling out.