Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
49485
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
272
Points per Page
0.025735
Description
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors and becomes friends with a local Indian boy.