Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.5
Points
24.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
162431
Points per Word
0.000148
Description
At eighty-four, Leota is alone, her beloved garden in ruins. Her efforts to reconcile with her adult children are fruitless, and she voices her despair to a loving Father, her only friend.