Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.5
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
76590
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
264
Points per Page
0.045455
Description
Sixteen-year-old Nomi struggles not to give in to despair when her mother and sister flee their home in East Village, a Mennonite community in Manitoba, leaving her in the care of her increasingly depressed father.