Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.1
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
62451
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
316
Points per Page
0.028481
Description
A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother. The plot contains violence, including descriptions of child abuse.