Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
46075
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
197
Points per Page
0.035533
Description
Miriam, a fourteen-year-old Russian immigrant in 1910, gets a job at the Triangle Shirt Waist Company. As she is finishing work on March 25, 1911, a fire begins in the factory, and she struggles to escape. The plot contains racial slurs.