What age is the book The Help appropriate for?

What age is the book The Help appropriate for?

The Help

Interest Level	Reading Level	ATOS
Grades 9 – 12	Grades 3 – 5	4.4

Is The Help by Kathryn Stockett based on a true story?

Is The Help based on true events? Kathryn Stockett’s 2009 novel told a fictional story. So, The Help is not inspired by a true story of an ambitious writer in the 1960s, who publishes a book with multiple stories of black maids. So, The Help is considered a work of fiction.

What is The Help by Kathryn Stockett about?

The Help, Kathryn Stockett’s debut novel, tells the story of black maids working in white Southern homes in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, and of Miss Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, a 22-year-old graduate from Ole Miss, who returns to her family’s cotton plantation, Longleaf, to find that her beloved maid and …

Is the help autobiographical?

‘The Help’ Author Says Criticism Makes Her ‘Cringe’ Kathryn Stockett’s first novel, The Help, has become a New York Times best-seller — and it has its readers buzzing about its racial themes. She says the book is not autobiographical, even though she was raised in Mississippi with a black maid.

Can a 12 year old read the cruel prince?

There’s drugs, alcohol, and a bit of kissing, but that really is it. It’s not inappropriate but personally I think 14 and up is a better age to read this, but it would be perfectly fine if anyone under the age of 14 read it.

How much did the maids make in the help?

At 90 cents per hour, the maids in the book would have earned $7,776 for those eight years.

What is the point of the help?

In The Help , Kathryn Stockett exposes the real-life injustices that appeared in the black community in South America during 1962 when slavery was abolished and the Human Rights were established however, despite this improvement there was still social and racial issues which were prevalent in the black community and …

Is there romance in the help?

There’s no affection between Minny and Leroy, there’s no affection between Aibileen and any man. Perhaps the author believed Aibileen’s relationship with Mae Mobley was love enough for all. As a reader though, I had to wonder, where was the love for and between the African American characters?

How old is Mae Mobley now?

Mae Mobley Leefolt
Age	2 1/2
Status	Alive
Height	Unknown
Weight	Unknown