Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
62694
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
304
Points per Page
0.029605
Description
Uprooted and living with an aunt in 1960s Oklahoma, thirteen-year-old Garnet and her older sister Opal brave their mother's desertion and their father's recovery from an accident, learning that the best home of all is the one you make inside yourself.