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.