Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.5
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
45874
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
225
Points per Page
0.031111
Description
In 1883, two orphaned girls realize that their dream of saving enough money to move to Brooklyn across the newly built bridge may be achieved if they learn new trades at a settlement house, rather than continuing their lives of prostitution and theft.