Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
17192
Points per Word
0.000174
Page Count
120
Points per Page
0.025
Description
In 1978, nine-year-old Sylvia and her mother move to Wakefield, South Carolina, where Sylvia becomes best friends with a woman approaching her one hundredth birthday.