Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.6
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
76873
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
290
Points per Page
0.037931
Description
When seventeen-year-old Madge, a biracial girl living in a small Pennsylvania town populated by bigots, decides to change the world for the better, she starts by "adopting" a four-year-old boy she finds abandoned in New York City.