Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
34864
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
181
Points per Page
0.027624
Description
Eleven-year-old Verbena gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with the help of an odd new friend who mistakes Verbena for the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.