Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
2.7
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
7959
Points per Word
0.000126
Page Count
246
Points per Page
0.004065
Description
When her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.