Sweetgrass Basket cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 5.0
Points 5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 31627
Points per Word 0.000158
Page Count 243
Points per Page 0.020576

Description

In alternating passages, two Mohawk sisters describe their lives at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (established in 1879 to educate Native Americans) as they try to assimilate into white culture, and one of them is falsely accused of stealing.