Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.6
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
43505
Points per Word
0.000161
Page Count
176
Points per Page
0.039773
Description
When eleven-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout to escape her unhappy homelife, she slowly gets to know a poor family who have come to California after losing their home in Texas to the dust storms of the 1930's.