Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
67912
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
272
Points per Page
0.040441
Description
In 1937 rural Kentucky, Cora Mae starts a school newspaper to rally support for the Rural Electrification Act, but the town's resistance to change is not easy to overcome. Text has mild violence and references to alcohol abuse and ableism.