Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.7
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55913
Points per Word
0.000161
Page Count
301
Points per Page
0.0299
Description
After writing a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt and receiving unexpected help from her Hallelujah-spouting cousin Henry James, Elsie Mae tries to prevent a company from building a canal through the Okefenokee Swamp.