Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
72740
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
292
Points per Page
0.037671
Description
When her eight-year-old neighbor is stricken with polio in 1955, eleven-year-old Laurie discovers that there is power in her imagination as she weaves a story during her visits with him and other patients confined to iron lung machines.