Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.0
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
24872
Points per Word
0.000161
Page Count
157
Points per Page
0.025478
Description
While her friend Missy Violet, the town midwife, is away in Florida, eleven-year-old Viney concerns herself with ailing neighbors, schoolmates, and her irrepressible cousin Charles, who feels superior because he has been to Harlem in New York City.