Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
24057
Points per Word
0.000125
Page Count
144
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
Orphaned by her mother's death, Edith goes to live with her older sister and her dour husband in their stern farming household, where the strain of adjusting seems to aggravate her epileptic seizures.