Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.7
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
68318
Points per Word
0.000146
Page Count
362
Points per Page
0.027624
Description
In 1952, when Georgie is eleven years old, her family moves to a new Indiana neighborhood, where her teenaged neighbor has polio and lives her life in an iron lung. The plot contains profanity.