Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55304
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
205
Points per Page
0.039024
Description
The Bell children are coping in their own way with their mother's death, their father's increasing remoteness from their family life, and how their shared love of playacting both helps and hinders loneliness and growing up for them.