Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.1
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
22193
Points per Word
0.000135
Page Count
134
Points per Page
0.022388
Description
Ten-year-old Mary Mae, living with her parents in fossil-rich southern Ohio, tries to reconcile, despite her mother's strong disapproval, her family's Creationist beliefs with the prehistoric fossils she studies in school.