Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
59484
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
216
Points per Page
0.041667
Description
In 1918, as World War I ends and the Spanish influenza pandemic begins, thirteen-year-old Hellie survives as a beggar and pickpocket on the streets of New York until she boards the orphan train to Oregon, where she learns about the meaning of family.