Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.8
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
26273
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
160
Points per Page
0.025
Description
When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady. Jayna travels to Brooklyn, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother.