Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.6
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
63565
Points per Word
0.000142
Page Count
277
Points per Page
0.032491
Description
Based on the lives of the author's mother and grandmother, this book tells the story of a widowed Croatian immigrant trying to keep her family together in the mining towns of Ontario in the 1920s and 1930s.