Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
7.5
Points
17.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
96488
Points per Word
0.000176
Page Count
420
Points per Page
0.040476
Series
Young Royals
Description
Awaiting execution in 1587 after being convicted of plotting against her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, recounts her life story from prison. The narrative covers her becoming a widow at age eighteen and her subsequent struggle to regain her throne after being forced to abdicate. The book is set in sixteenth-century Scotland and England and contains sexual situations and violence.