Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.0
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
71481
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
246
Points per Page
0.044715
Description
Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901, she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.