Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.0
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55695
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
240
Points per Page
0.033333
Description
Ten-year-old Willow and her four-year-old brother Twig find themselves on their own after their mother breaks parole and takes off. They are sent to live with their grandmother in her house called Stonecrop, where they must adjust to rural life.