Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
40125
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
224
Points per Page
0.026786
Description
When twelve-year-old Lise spends the summer on an island in Maine with her self-reliant mother and bright but oddly mute younger brother, her formerly safe world is complicated by an aged Indian neighbor, her mother's childhood friend, and a hurricane.