Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.1
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
32270
Points per Word
0.000155
Description
In the 1920s when her father is disabled in a coal-mining accident, eleven-year-old Emmy and the others in her family do what they can to help, with her fourteen-year-old brother taking Pa's place in the mines.