Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.0
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
61956
Points per Word
0.000178
Page Count
256
Points per Page
0.042969
Description
This book presents the true story of journalist John Howard Griffin who, in the 1950s, had his skin medically darkened and traveled through the Deep South in order to experience first hand the cruelty and injustice of segregation.