Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.3
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
64138
Points per Word
0.000156
Page Count
284
Points per Page
0.035211
Description
From 1939 to 1945, a Jewish family struggles to survive in occupied China: young Ilse by remaining optimistic, her older brother by joining a resistance movement, her mother by maintaining connections to the past, and her father by playing the violin.