Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
42039
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
234
Points per Page
0.025641
Description
Caring for a runt lamb helps Pixie gain empathy when, in the 1940s, her family moves to her grandparents' farm and her sister Charlotte contracts polio and is sent away.