Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.3
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
36061
Points per Word
0.000139
Page Count
149
Points per Page
0.033557
Description
Through a hot, dry Oklahoma summer, twelve-year-old Franny tends wild animals brought by her neighbors, hears gossip during a weekly quilting bee, befriends a new neighbor who has some big secrets, and learns to hope.