Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.8
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
56413
Points per Word
0.00016
Page Count
321
Points per Page
0.028037
Description
In the early 1900s, as four young homesteaders in Tripp County, South Dakota, work hard to prepare for the coming winter, they face drought, discomfort, and sabotaging squatters but find new friends and inner strength to carry on.