Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.5
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
20753
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
176
Points per Page
0.017045
Description
Just before the beginning of World War I, eight-year-old Ruthie, who lives with her parents and six brothers on a farm in Indiana, wishes for a sister and tries to behave like the lady her mother wants her to be.