Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
44326
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
272
Points per Page
0.025735
Description
This book chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.