Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.0
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
3503
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.010417
Series
American Girls Short Stories
Description
Ten-year-old Kirsten regrets the promise she has made to a ragged boy she discovers alone near a wrecked covered wagon not far from her Minnesota home.