Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.9
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
41877
Points per Word
0.000167
Page Count
187
Points per Page
0.037433
Description
This is a biography of Amy Carmichael, a missionary who dedicated her life to helping children in India during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book recounts her work exposing and fighting against the practice of selling children into temple worship and slavery in Hindu religious institutions. Her 1903 publication "Things as They Are" brought international attention to the suffering of thousands of children in India and sparked public debate in England and America. The biography follows her efforts to rescue and care for orphaned and abandoned children through her work at the Dohnavur Fellowship.