Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.4
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
36064
Points per Word
0.000166
Page Count
186
Points per Page
0.032258
Description
In this novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.