Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.9
Points
17.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
107018
Points per Word
0.000159
Description
In the early 1930s, two orphans arrive by boxcar in Argus, a small off-reservation town in North Dakota, where they look to their mother's sister Fritzie and her husband for refuge.