Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.4
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
51076
Points per Word
0.000137
Page Count
272
Points per Page
0.025735
Description
In 1793 Philadelphia, fourteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.