Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.2
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
64541
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
337
Points per Page
0.029674
Description
When Great-Aunt Beauregard announces her intentions to bring budding engineer John into the family business of coffin manufacturing for the rest of his natural life and to teach his sister, Page, to embalm, John decides enough is enough.