Hardscrabble cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 4.5
Points 6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 44593
Points per Word 0.000135
Page Count 240
Points per Page 0.025

Description

Twelve-year-old Belle Martin and her family move to Mingo, Colorado, in 1910 when the U.S. government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders.