AR Book Level
7.1
AR Points
17
Word Count
98,602
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
211725 EN
About this book
Ellen Carr leaves her unfulfilling London life to become a housekeeper at an experimental school in Austria, where she finds an idyllic world of mountains, music, and eccentric teachers and students. She brings order and joy to all those around her at the school. The story is set against the backdrop of gathering war as Hitler's power grows, threatening her peaceful world.