Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.1
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
64106
Points per Word
0.000156
Page Count
290
Points per Page
0.034483
Description
This book centers around the murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy lynched for whistling at a white woman. Two white men are tried and acquitted in a farce of the courtroom that typifies the 1950s southern code of justice.