Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
29815
Points per Word
0.000134
Page Count
159
Points per Page
0.025157
Description
During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.