Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
44056
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
227
Points per Page
0.030837
Description
After moving with her mother and deaf brother to Grandma's small Georgia town in the 1960s, Alice copes with feelings of isolation by befriending the elderly black woman who lives next door.