Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
37127
Points per Word
0.000135
Page Count
157
Points per Page
0.031847
Description
Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.