Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.0
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
63507
Points per Word
0.000157
Description
Every islander has a birth instrument and a life song, and the ancestors, called ghasts, linger to hear the music. But when the Duchess arrives from the mainland bringing orders of silence, she threatens the ghasts' existence.