Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
33500
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
107
Points per Page
0.046729
Description
To avoid being sent to an orphanage, twelve-year-old Willer, who longs to know his parentage, agrees to work for a country doctor in Texas during the late twentieth century.