Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
46778
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
213
Points per Page
0.032864
Series
Prairie River
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nessa can't remember a home other than the orphanage, and now she has no choice but to leave. Her plan is to escape on the next stagecoach west -- one headed toward Prairie River, Kansas, a town in the middle of nowhere.