Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.4
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
43448
Points per Word
0.000138
Page Count
208
Points per Page
0.028846
Description
Shortly after her first kiss but before her sixteenth birthday in December 1941, Marie-Claire and her younger brother and sister are sent to a tuberculosis sanatorium near their Manitoba farm. The plot contains profanity.