Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.5
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
73654
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
313
Points per Page
0.035144
Description
Melia and her two younger siblings are newly orphaned, but there is little time to mourn. It's the Depression, and there is a family business to run, so Melia has to find them a stand-in father. The plot contains profanity.