Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.8
Points
18.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
111036
Points per Word
0.000162
Description
Twelve-year-old Emily Parmenter, her young life marked by the disappearance of her mother and the death of a beloved brother, has withdrawn into a world of her own making on the family's faded plantation in South Carolina.