Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.3
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
38868
Points per Word
0.000129
Page Count
200
Points per Page
0.025
Description
Eight-year-old Fivel narrates the story of his family's Atlantic Ocean crossing to reunite with their father in the United States, from its desperate beginning in a shtetl in Poland in 1920 to his stirrings of identity as an American boy.