Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.7
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
28094
Points per Word
0.000142
Page Count
144
Points per Page
0.027778
Description
Lonek, an 11-year-old Jewish boy, escapes from Nazi-occupied Poland in 1939 and is subsequently deported to a Siberian gulag. When fate frees him from the Russian slave labor camp, he begins a two-year odyssey over thousands of miles.