Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.1
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
64421
Points per Word
0.00014
Page Count
252
Points per Page
0.035714
Description
When her father dies, 10-year-old Rebecca is sent to live with the mother and, through a growing relationship with a troubled foster child, begins to accept her mother. The plot contains profanity, racial slurs, physical and alcohol abuse.