Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.8
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
32964
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
192
Points per Page
0.026042
Description
Only twelve-year-old Colleen knows that her baby sister was stillborn and that Colleen put another baby in her place, until the baby's father shows up and makes trouble for her and her family on the South Dakota prairie in the 1860s.