Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.8
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
44369
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
161
Points per Page
0.043478
Description
After her family moves from Germany to Texas in 1847, fifteen-year-old Tina chronicles in letters to her grandmother their struggle to survive in a strange, new place while preserving their traditional German ways.