Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
26012
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
120
Points per Page
0.033333
Series
Tootie McCarthy
Description
In 1928, thirteen-year-old Tootie McCarthy's mother becomes very ill, so her parents decide to send her younger brother, a mongoloid, to an asylum run by a doctor Tootie does not trust.