Gideon's Trumpet cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 10.8
Points 15.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 71579
Points per Word 0.00021
Page Count 277
Points per Page 0.054152

Description

This is an account of Clarence Earl Gideon who in 1962 took his case to the Supreme Court because he had been tried without a lawyer when he could not afford one, and how his case has changed the law of the United States.