Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
47223
Points per Word
0.000148
Page Count
152
Points per Page
0.046053
Description
Fourteen-year-old Clara Fern Massie struggles to become a confident, independent young woman after she runs away from her home and harsh father in the Ozarks in 1919 and lies about her age to take a job as a Harvey Girl in the American Southwest.