Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.2
Points
19.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
118730
Points per Word
0.00016
Page Count
343
Points per Page
0.055394
Description
Kate, a young Southern girl in the 1970s, is caught in a tug-of-war between a prim and sensitive mother and a beautiful and reckless cousin. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, negative stereotypes.