Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
41673
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
239
Points per Page
0.025105
Description
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved in the political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.