Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
41777
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
175
Points per Page
0.034286
Description
In 1948, newly moved to the Bronx, eleven-year-old Skip longs to shed her responsibility for her mentally handicapped older sister and give her whole attention to her new friendship with the bold and daring girl who seems to run the neighborhood.