Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.3
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
26657
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
134
Points per Page
0.029851
Description
During the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis in 1878, Eli and Addie struggle to survive with the help of Addie's ghost-mother and a girl who works at the busy graveyard.