Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.5
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
59182
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
282
Points per Page
0.031915
Description
When the Spanish influenza epidemic reaches Portland, Oregon, in 1918, seventeen-year-old Cleo leaves behind the comfort of her boarding school to work for the Red Cross. The plot contains profanity.