Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.0
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
61127
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
297
Points per Page
0.030303
Description
In rural Minnesota in 1974, thirteen-year-old Pride Star, raised to be independent, must accept help from friends and neighbors to care for eleven-year-old Nightingale and six-year-old Baby when her grandfather is hospitalized with a brain infection.