Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.8
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
42089
Points per Word
0.000166
Page Count
218
Points per Page
0.03211
Description
In 1849, twelve-year-old Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town. Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get "home."