Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
32341
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
170
Points per Page
0.029412
Description
In the 1880s, thirteen-year-old Thomas moves west from the aristocratic Virginia home of his grandparents to a poor Kansas farm to live with a father he barely remembers and his new stepfamily.