Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
28849
Points per Word
0.000139
Page Count
181
Points per Page
0.022099
Description
A dog whose beloved owner has died and an orphaned ten-year-old girl find each other while enduring poverty and homelessness in early-twentieth-century Boston.