Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
37301
Points per Word
0.000161
Page Count
188
Points per Page
0.031915
Description
When her father goes to fight in World War II, six-year-old Elizabeth goes with her mother and sister to her grandfather's house, where she learns to face up to the always puzzling and often cruel realities of the adult world.