Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
2960
Points per Word
0.000169
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.010417
Description
A young girl has only vague recollections of her mother, Ludie. In this book, free verse poems express her yearning for the presence of a mother and the universal feelings of adolescence.