Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.8
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
9609
Points per Word
0.000208
Page Count
84
Points per Page
0.02381
Description
When her mother dies, Martha is so unhappy living in the dried-up town of Oak Grove that she convinces two unusual brothers, who long to return to the ocean, to run away with her.