Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
50456
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
259
Points per Page
0.030888
Description
As their mother's manic depression grows worse, eleven-year-old Esther and her sister, Ruth, visit various churches hoping to find their father, a preacher named Ezekiel who left them seven years before in 1966.