Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
11740
Points per Word
0.00017
Page Count
105
Points per Page
0.019048
Description
In Cripple Creek, Colorado, in the 1890s, when young Mary McHugh's father loses his leg in a mining accident, she tries to help, both by earning money and by encouraging her father to go back to carving wooden figurines and playing the piano.