Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.8
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
35664
Points per Word
0.000168
Page Count
213
Points per Page
0.028169
Description
In the months leading up to the August 1991 coup attempt that resulted in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a young dancer with the Kirov Ballet struggles to decide whether to defect while on an upcoming trip to Paris.