Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.0
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
37962
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
192
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
It's 1865 in the conquered South and things are not as they were before the war. Thirteen-year-old Abby Joyner still lives on the plantation where she was raised, but she and her grandparents are free now and continue on for a small salary.