Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.9
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
52713
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
248
Points per Page
0.032258
Description
In the late 1940s, twelve-year-old Gussie learns the definition of integrity while helping with a celebration at the Alabama School for the Deaf, her punishment for misdeeds against her deaf parents and their boarders.