Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
6.3
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
63684
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
315
Points per Page
0.031746
Description
The move of an unconventional Hollywood family to a coastal North Carolina town in the early 1950s results not only in an unlikely friendship between high school age Genevieve and newcomer Brenda but also in a challenge to traditional ways of thinking.