Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.7
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
15826
Points per Word
0.000126
Page Count
123
Points per Page
0.01626
Description
Bess's father is away helping settlers on the Oregon Trail, and her mother is sick with swamp fever. Bess's only hope of getting the money to save the family farm is to win the quilt contest at the town fair.