Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.9
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
48969
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
197
Points per Page
0.035533
Description
When teenager Ann Fay takes over as "man of the house" for her absent soldier father, she struggles to keep the family and herself together in the face of personal tragedy and the 1940s polio epidemic in North Carolina.