Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.1
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
80413
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
399
Points per Page
0.032581
Description
A war survivor Africa recounts his transition from twelve-year-old orphan to killing machine. Beah emerged from Sierra Leone's malignant civil conflict and eventually graduated from college in the US. The text contains graphic violence.