Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.5
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1865
Points per Word
0.000268
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
In New Orleans in 1898, while her mother talks of saving to buy land and her father insists on the importance of an education, young Irish immigrant Maggie McCrary is determined to find her own way in the new place they call home.