Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.5
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
58148
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
304
Points per Page
0.029605
Description
Molly Ballou, an Abenaki-French Canadian girl in 1920s Vermont, is haunted by her dead sister and her family's secrets as the government tries to force the Ballous and their neighbors out of their homes in an attempt to rid the state of poor citizens.