Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
33414
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
152
Points per Page
0.032895
Description
When an uncle she has never heard of comes to live in her family's house in a small South Carolina town, fourteen-year-old Afton, grieving over her brother's death in World War II, tries to unravel the secrets her mother refuses to share with her.