Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.0
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
78441
Points per Word
0.00014
Page Count
352
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation. The plot contains sexual situations.