Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
45307
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
228
Points per Page
0.030702
Description
After their mother abandons them during the Great Depression, eleven-year-old Tennyson Fontaine and her little sister, Hattie, are sent to live with their eccentric aunt Henrietta in a decaying plantation house outside of New Orleans.