Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55228
Points per Word
0.000163
Page Count
250
Points per Page
0.036
Description
Sixteen-year-old Willa, living in a Depression-era mining town, experiences love and friendship and finds an outlet for her writing when her family becomes part of the Arthurdale, West Virginia, community supported by Eleanor Roosevelt.