Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
35593
Points per Word
0.00014
Page Count
186
Points per Page
0.026882
Description
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down the island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child to increase the school's population.