Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
43963
Points per Word
0.000136
Page Count
204
Points per Page
0.029412
Description
When their mother can no longer care for them, eleven-year-old Deirdre and her brothers board the Orphans' Train, but Deirdre finds a different type of family when she joins a traveling vaudeville troupe.