Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
50718
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
237
Points per Page
0.033755
Description
In the early 1960s, twelve-year-old songwriter Livy Two Weems dreams of seeing the world beyond the Maggie Valley, NC, holler where she lives in poverty with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, but she understands that she must put family first.