Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.3
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
54491
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
229
Points per Page
0.034934
Description
Fifteen-year-old Françoise, orphaned in 18th-century New France, escapes her life of poverty by taking a job as a maid, but when she is caught stealing a pair of gloves, she finds herself facing death by hanging unless she can figure out how to escape.