Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.0
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
79137
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
432
Points per Page
0.027778
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mitra and her brother Babak, whose dreams foretell the future, flee for their lives in the company of the three Zoroastrian priests, traveling through Persia as they follow star signs leading to a newly born king in Bethlehem.