Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.6
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
42350
Points per Word
0.000142
Page Count
185
Points per Page
0.032432
Description
In 1914, eleven-year-old Alex and his nine-year-old sister, Anna, are taken from New York City's Lower East Side to Blackwell's Island where there are lunatics, prisoners, evil caretakers, ghouls, and, perhaps, their missing mother.