Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.2
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
27860
Points per Word
0.000179
Page Count
110
Points per Page
0.045455
Description
In the 1960s, twelve-year-old Selina is growing up in Africville, which has been home to a tightly knit group of African Canadians for a hundred years. But the fate of Africville is uncertain when city authorities appear and families begin moving away.