Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.4
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
4635
Points per Word
0.000216
Description
Christine, a young girl living on a farm, discovers an abandoned fox cub and decides to care for it secretly. She must hide the fox from her father, who is a farmer that shoots foxes. The story explores the tension between Christine's compassion for the animal and her father's view of foxes as pests.