Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.1
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
12507
Points per Word
0.00016
Page Count
80
Points per Page
0.025
Description
By recounting the story of one boy and his brothers, this book discusses the placement of over 200,000 orphaned and abandoned children in homes throughout the Midwest from 1854 to 1929.