Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
6.4
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
53626
Points per Word
0.000168
Page Count
304
Points per Page
0.029605
Description
In the early 1900s, sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski takes a job at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation as assistant to the head epidemiologist, who is trying to discover how a seemingly healthy woman can be spreading typhoid fever.