Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
19756
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
256
Points per Page
0.011719
Description
In a series of poems, fourteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm during the drought in Oklahoma. Text contains disturbing imagery, gender bias and alcohol abuse.