Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
34899
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
196
Points per Page
0.02551
Description
During the Great Depression, twelve-year-old Artie Wilson, determined to escape plowing and planting the fields and milking the cow on her family's farm, longs to leave Buck Creek, Kentucky, and her life of poverty.