Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.0
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
57651
Points per Word
0.000139
Page Count
249
Points per Page
0.032129
Description
In poor, rural Georgia in 1927, twelve-year-old Carissa and her suspicious mama take in an elderly drifter with a shiny bicycle, never expecting how profoundly his wise and patient ways will affect them.