Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.0
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
34775
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
192
Points per Page
0.026042
Description
While spending the month of August on the Massachusetts shore with her father, stepmother, and their new baby, almost thirteen-year-old Maggie finds beauty in and draws strength from a great blue heron, even as the family around her unravels.