Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.1
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
42561
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
172
Points per Page
0.034884
Description
Fourteen-year-old Ellis thinks her summer is ruined when her family takes in ten- year-old Lilac, a child from the potato country of northern Maine.