Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.8
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
34594
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
192
Points per Page
0.026042
Description
After her father is called away from their plantation near Charleston, S.C., during the Civil War, twelve-year-old Susanna leads her brothers on a difficult journey in hopes of being reunited with him.