Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
63286
Points per Word
0.000142
Description
In the summer of 1947, the second year of world peace, Elsie is still fighting a war. She is fighting against a vicious bully, against the indifference of her father and against being the scholarship girl at the girls' grammar school.