Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
29310
Points per Word
0.000136
Page Count
176
Points per Page
0.022727
Series
Dear America
Description
In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.