Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
57937
Points per Word
0.000138
Page Count
256
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
When the Boon family moves into an old, ramshackle house at the very edge of a small town in the Netherlands, Oma Mei, the grandmother of seven motherless children, relates the house's remarkable origin in the 1860s.