Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.6
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
36599
Points per Word
0.000164
Page Count
216
Points per Page
0.027778
Series
Dear America
Description
After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, 11-year-old Lydia Pierce and her 14-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake, where Lydia struggles to learn a new lifestyle.