Flying South cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 4.7
Points 5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 31948
Points per Word 0.000157

Description

In Charlottesville, Virginia, amidst the social and political turmoil of 1968, eleven-year-old Alice learns when to fight battles and when to let go from her family's elderly gardener, Doc, and begins to connect with her widowed mother.