Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.3
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1184
Points per Word
0.000422
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.