Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
52094
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
219
Points per Page
0.03653
Description
Longing to give up the nineteenth-century English circus life she was born into, sixteen-year-old Ellen Spangle secretly prepares to be a governess and is courted by a wealthy young man until two tragedies lead her to re-evaluate her plans.