Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
674
Points per Word
0.000742
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.010417
Description
The historic migration of African-Americans from the rural South to northern cities in the early decades of the twentieth century is chronicled in text and Jacob Lawrence's paintings.