Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.4
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55215
Points per Word
0.000163
Page Count
261
Points per Page
0.034483
Description
Thirteen-year-old Mary, not getting along at her new school and having convinced her mother to allow her to live with her grandmother, finds the strength to help a Cherokee farm manager with his herd and defend his daughter, who does not fit in.