Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.9
Points
15.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
93812
Points per Word
0.00016
Page Count
401
Points per Page
0.037406
Description
Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. When tragedy strikes, Lou and her younger brother Oz must go with their invalid mother to live in the Virginia mountains.