Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.6
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
17169
Points per Word
0.000175
Page Count
95
Points per Page
0.031579
Description
Two sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate in alternate voices and poems, their experiences after their family is forcibly evicted and separated, with one sister accompanying their parents and the other staying behind.