Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.7
Points
18.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
115564
Points per Word
0.000156
Page Count
387
Points per Page
0.046512
Description
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs lives on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania but yearns for real life and true love. Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself.