Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.1
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
44178
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
183
Points per Page
0.038251
Description
Clover, a young African-American, is ten years old on the day her father marries a white woman and is killed in an automobile accident, leaving her to be raised by a step-mother she hardly knows.