Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.1
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
58002
Points per Word
0.000138
Page Count
293
Points per Page
0.027304
Description
After her beloved father's death in 1977, eleven-year-old tomboy Chip tries to fit in with her family of beauty queens, making unlikely new friends at Miss Vernie's unusual charm school in Mount Airy, North Carolina.