Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.6
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
80941
Points per Word
0.000161
Page Count
417
Points per Page
0.031175
Description
In 1911 St. Louis, eleven-year-old orphan Julia Delaney rails against the nun's strict rules at the House of Mercy, but life becomes more exciting when she and her best friend get tangled up with a gangster and a decade-old mystery.