Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.9
Points
16.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
98689
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
496
Points per Page
0.032258
Description
Abandoned at age ten, Kya survived on her own in the marsh. A born naturalist, she took life lessons from the land, learning from the false signals of fireflies the real way of this world. The story contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence.