Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.9
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
39853
Points per Word
0.000176
Description
Set in China in 1897, where a girl was considered worthless property and a burden to her family, fourteen-year-old Ko-chin marries a revolutionary. Raised to accept her fate, she finds it difficult to adapt to the changes that her husband expects of her.