Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.9
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
71814
Points per Word
0.000139
Page Count
351
Points per Page
0.02849
Series
Bakers Mountain Stories
Description
With home life destabilized by her father's postwar trauma, Ellie Honeycutt seeks escape at the NASCAR speedway and in her dreams of travel and college, while her twin sister, Ida, clings to family and finds solace in her sketchbook.