Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.4
Points
14.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
82756
Points per Word
0.000169
Page Count
277
Points per Page
0.050542
Description
Will slips off to a movie theatre and is shocked to see his father there -- with a woman he doesn't know. The father is a "colored" schoolteacher who has become a hero in the struggle against apartheid; his companion is a white activist.