Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.5
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1725
Points per Word
0.00029
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
During the Depression in the Louisiana bayou, a curious young girl helps the "Swamp Ghost" that her cousins warned her about and finds herself with one good friend. The coauthor is Patricia McKissack.