Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.9
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
58225
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
275
Points per Page
0.032727
Description
During the Taliban's reign in Afghanistan, the lives of Najmah, a young refugee from Kunduz, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her huband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.