Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
20678
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
92
Points per Page
0.032609
Description
Three children who live on the grounds of a German castle spend the summer trying to catch a pike trapped in the moat, while the mother of two of the children is slowly dying of cancer.