Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.2
Points
19.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
108761
Points per Word
0.000175
Page Count
374
Points per Page
0.050802
Description
On an icy winter night in an isolated house in rural Vermont, a midwife performs an emergency cesarean to save a child's life on a mother she believes to be dead.