Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
17.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
111225
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
335
Points per Page
0.050746
Description
The fatherless Moody family moves from Colorado to Massachusetts in 1912. Now in his teens, Ralph discovers that "just little things that would have been all right in Colorado" now get him into trouble. He is sent to his grandfather's farm in Maine.