Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
29145
Points per Word
0.000137
Page Count
144
Points per Page
0.027778
Description
In 1887, when her missionary parents have gone to China without her, snobbish twelve-year-old Julia is sent to a farm in upstate New York where she breaks a leg. While it mends, Julia learns to love and accept her country cousins and heal her anger.