Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
3.8
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
60655
Points per Word
0.000132
Page Count
224
Points per Page
0.035714
Description
Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a handicapped brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her family's problems.