Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
2.9
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
34852
Points per Word
0.000115
Page Count
272
Points per Page
0.014706
Description
In the 1870s, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her growing friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.