Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.7
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
30474
Points per Word
0.000131
Page Count
208
Points per Page
0.019231
Description
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in faraway Key West, Florida.