Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
3.8
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
60478
Points per Word
0.000132
Page Count
272
Points per Page
0.029412
Description
In the 1870s, sixteen-year-old Katie has grown up in a remote cabin on the edge of a volcano with her father and their friend Lorraine, the only people she has ever seen. After eagerly anticipating it for so long, her first trip into a town ultimately brings tragedy into their lives. The plot contains violence.