Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
14690
Points per Word
0.000136
Page Count
96
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a six-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota.