Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
38642
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
224
Points per Page
0.026786
Description
In rural Indiana, in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat-threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching of his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."