Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.8
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
25171
Points per Word
0.000119
Page Count
146
Points per Page
0.020548
Description
In 1948, eleven-year-old Audrey lives with her family in Jewell Valley, a coal mining camp in Virginia, where her mother still mourns the death of a baby, her father goes on drinking binges on paydays, and Audrey tries to recover from scarlet fever.