Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.5
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
40794
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
189
Points per Page
0.031746
Description
During the summer of 1926 in the Midwest, 16-year-old Garnet is resigned to marrying a nice boy and settling into middle-class homemaking, until she takes a liberating job in a hat shop. The plot contains sexual situations.