Gentle's Holler cover

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.