Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.3
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
60370
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
271
Points per Page
0.03321
Description
In Canton, Texas, seventeen-year-old Mercy's dreams of a different life than her mother's are postponed by harsh circumstances, including the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919, which forces her into doing domestic work for a loving, if troubled, family.