Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.3
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
53121
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
258
Points per Page
0.031008
Description
In Missouri in 1926, fifteen-year-old Iris Baldwin discovers what family truly means when her father hires her out for the summer as a companion to a country doctor's invalid mother.