Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.1
Points
17.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
98602
Points per Word
0.000172
Page Count
397
Points per Page
0.042821
Description
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.