Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.3
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
14441
Points per Word
0.000138
Page Count
233
Points per Page
0.008584
Description
When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier. May's story is told in verse.