Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
12295
Points per Word
0.000163
Page Count
105
Points per Page
0.019048
Description
Desperate to learn to read, eight-year-old Olemaun badgers her father to let her go to the school for Inuit children in Canada's far north. There, she encounters a particularly mean nun who renames her Margaret but cannot "educate" her into submission.