Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.9
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
35131
Points per Word
0.000142
Page Count
170
Points per Page
0.029412
Series
American Quilts
Description
Ida Lou, her brother, Vic, and their struggling single mother, are living in Bloomington, Illinois, in 1918. Vic wants to join the fighting overseas, while Ida Lou dreams of becoming an aerialist, like her heroes, The Flying Wards.