The Locked Garden cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 5.2
Points 5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 36009
Points per Word 0.000139
Page Count 168
Points per Page 0.029762

Description

After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her sister move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new treatments of mental illness are being proposed.