Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
48689
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
213
Points per Page
0.032864
Description
At her grandparents' home during the summer of 1963, eleven-year-old Annie, grief-stricken by the death of her newborn sister and isolated by her mother's depression, finds comfort in the friendship of a neighbor boy and a reclusive mountain woman.