Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
18201
Points per Word
0.000165
Page Count
135
Points per Page
0.022222
Description
In the 1930s when their parents go north to Philadelphia to find work, five-year-old Pearl and seven-year-old Prince must stay behind with their grandmother in Florida and help her run her small store.