Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
61951
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
259
Points per Page
0.034749
Description
In the early 1950s, Lydia Hawkins has grown up poor in the Appalachian Mountains with her widowed mother, brother, BJ, who has cystic fibrosis, and Gran. When Gran and BJ die and her mother is jailed unjustly, Lydia must try to remain strong.