Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.9
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
10626
Points per Word
9.4e-05
Page Count
88
Points per Page
0.011364
Description
Nine-year-old Meggie resents spending time with a strange, smelly old man who calls her mother whenever he needs a ride, but when Christmas finds him in the hospital she knows what she must do.