Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.2
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
29134
Points per Word
0.000137
Page Count
168
Points per Page
0.02381
Description
Abyssinia, born in a cotton field in the wake of a tornado, is the pride and joy of her family and community until a series of disasters and personal attacks threaten to break her, but Mother Barker and her lessons in folk medicine help her survive.