Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.2
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
26702
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
128
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
While working as a servant in the home of a naturalist, Mary Mehan gradually recovers from the numbing effects of her experience as a Civil War nurse and falls in love with a man who had lost his hearing.