Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.4
Points
14.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
85948
Points per Word
0.000163
Page Count
262
Points per Page
0.053435
Description
Elizabeth, the privileged daughter of a part-Jewish doctor and his wife in South Africa in the 1960s, learns firsthand about the cruelties of apartheid when her beloved Xhosa nanny, Salamina, is forced to carry permission papers to enter white areas.