Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
38198
Points per Word
0.000131
Page Count
244
Points per Page
0.020492
Description
In 1942, fourteen-year-old Jill goes to stay with her grandmother on the coast of Maine, where she is introduced to the often gossipy nature of small-town life, and discovers that the war is closer than she thought.