When the Boon family moves into an old, ramshackle house at the very edge of a small town in the Netherlands, Oma Mei, the grandmother of seven motherless children, relates the house's remarkable origin in the 1860s. Interest Level: 5-8 Reading Level: 4.6 ATOS Book Level: 4.5 AR Interest Level: MG AR Points: 8 AR Quiz: 179764EN Reading Counts Level: 3.8 Reading Counts Points: 15 Lexile Measure: 660.