Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
3.6
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
12333
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
72
Points per Page
0.027778
Series
Pacemaker Classic
Description
This abridged version of the Nathaniel Hawthorne classic is about seventeenth-century New England and its Puritan values. It is about shame, guilt, and pride when Hester is branded an adultress and finds love in her child Pearl.