Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
14160
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
67
Points per Page
0.029851
Description
Six-year-old John, emotionally withdrawn and resistant to traditional teaching methods, experiences ridicule and punishment until an old retired teacher reaches out from her blindness to share with him the world of reading and writing.