Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.0
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
21511
Points per Word
0.000139
Page Count
110
Points per Page
0.027273
Description
After her father remarries, twelve-year-old Stacy runs away in search of her real mother, only to be befriended by a wizened old woman who lives alone in the desert. The plot contains mild profanity and sexual references.