Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.3
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
49688
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
215
Points per Page
0.032558
Description
In 1938, fourteen-year-old Celie must cope with leaving her Enfield, Massachusetts, home and her life-long friend, Chubby, as the day approaches when the Swift River Valley will be flooded to create a reservoir for Boston.