Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.8
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
43318
Points per Word
0.000139
Page Count
162
Points per Page
0.037037
Description
Urged at the age of eighteen to marry a man she doesn’t want, Nell delays the event by working on a quilt, slowly starving herself, and observing the unhappy lot of many women in turn-of-the century before arriving at a decision take charge of her life.