Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
33168
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
176
Points per Page
0.028409
Description
In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.