Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.1
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
61023
Points per Word
0.000164
Page Count
224
Points per Page
0.044643
Description
Set in the 1930s in a small Mississippi town, this story is about racism and about a ten-year-old boy who is convicted of and executed for murdering a white girl.