Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.2
Points
19.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
119799
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
435
Points per Page
0.043678
Description
This book tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s.