Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.5
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
35458
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
201
Points per Page
0.024876
Description
This story of Hurricane Katrina is told by Ruby, an unusually intuitive girl who lives with her grandmother in New Orleans but has powerful memories of an earlier life in the swamps.